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FS#1651 - ipkg files are gzipped twice #6629

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openwrt-bot opened this issue Jul 13, 2018 · 1 comment
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FS#1651 - ipkg files are gzipped twice #6629

openwrt-bot opened this issue Jul 13, 2018 · 1 comment
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shawnl:

they are gzipped tar archives containing

debian-binary
data.tar.gz
control.tar.gz

why aren't these just ar archives of the above files, as to be standard .deb files?

You can't compress compressed data.
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jow-:

Mainly historical reasons related to the very old ipkg.sh implementation and in modern opkg it avoids the need for having both tar and ar unarchiving code.

Double compression is not ideal but I do not see it causing huge issues either.

Please use the mailing list in the future for such questions.

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