Re: deb-support-without-dpkg.patch was Re: AMC patches ported to mc-2006-02-03-13.tar.gz

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>
> > > deb-support-without-dpkg.patch
> > >     For systems withoput dpkg (almost any non-debian OS).
> > >     It handles .deb files as regular .ar archives, as they are in reality.
> >
> > This would be nice addition. Only if we could avoid the 'O' option of gnu
> > tar... Does anyone know of a way to avoid it ? In any case I think this
> > patch is worth adding.
>
> I've played with this patch again and I found a problem. In fact it is a
> problem in uar...
>
> When I press enter on either a .deb file or .a file I get directory
> listing containing file names like this:
>
> [excerpt from libc.a]
> 2005 C-address.o
> 2005 C-collate.o
> 2005 C-ctype.o
>
> [excerpt from mc_4.6.1-1_i386.deb]
> 2005 control.tar.gz
> 2005 data.tar.gz
> 2005 debian-binary

This may be blamed to vfs_parse_ls_lga() too since it processes the output
of the extfs "list" command. Oh, well...