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Re: [cobalt-users] Format of a pkg file
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Format of a pkg file
- From: Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Apr 19 13:33:01 2002
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
David Clements wrote:
>
> I want to be able to look at the contents of a pkg file before
> installing. Is there a way to do this?
Rename it PKG-name.tar.gz, and use standard tar tools, etc, to look
inside (or in the Windows world, WinZip etc can understand it).
The actual RPMs you won't be able to see inside, but you can read the
upgrade_me script, etc, to see what it's going to do.
--
Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.