ar, libapt and hand rolling .debs

Andreas Schwab schwab@redhat.com
Fri Oct 2 14:49:00 GMT 2009


Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> writes:

> 1. Is the terminating of filenames with "/" in ar archives a bug or a
>    feature?

It's a SYSV feature.  It allows embedded spaces.

> 2. Is there any way to control the termination character from the ar
>    command line?

Chose a BFD target that has ar_pad_char == ' ' (ie. BSD format).

Andreas.

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