[Tfug] Following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in Debian

[Claude Rubinson]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:22:30AM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> What I was really trying to get at is that I don't trust other 
> sources the way I do the packages in Debian (though they have 
> been known to not follow the standards at times - but those are 
> reported as bugs!), Debian Multimedia, and backports. So before 
> installing a deb from another third party, I would like check to 
> see if they are following the standards of putting files in the 
> right place, etc.

Offhand, I don't know of a tool that lets you peer inside of debs but
I would think that it should exist.  In any case, a deb file is simply
an archive file and can be extracted with `ar -x $deb'.  The binaries
are in the data.tar.gz file.

Claude