RFC: Comfortable Snappy (aka Comfy ;-)

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 22.06.2015, 09:16 -0500 schrieb Jamie Strandboge:

> As one who works on Ubuntu Core itself, apt isn't hugely interesting to me
> (though I think that silo testing procedures on the phone and therefore future
> Ubuntu Personal will have to be adjusted) but dpkg is. I'm curious what the
> workflow will be like on a dpkg-less system...  all I'm personally using dpkg
> for is as a means to extract the files to the system so there is no real need
> for a full dpkg, but wondering if this piece has been worked out.
> 
a .deb is just an ar archive containin two tar archives  ... 

ar vx package.deb
tar -xzvf data.tar.gz ...

should get you the unpacked contents of the deb ...

ciao
	oli