#!/bin/sh# Utility to convert a debian package to .tar.gz.# Part of the script adapted from rpm2targz script from Slackware# By Tushar Teredesai <tush@yahoo.com>if [ "$1" = "" ]then echo "$0: Converts a debian package to a GNU tar+gz format." echo "Also preserves the debian control scripts." echo "Usage: $0 <file.deb>" exit 1;fifor i in $*do # Output progress only if multiple files are being converted. if [ ! "$1" = "$*" ] then echo "Processing file: $i" fi # Tmp dir to store intermediate files tmpdir=/tmp/deb2targz.$$ # Better be safe than sorry rm -rf ${tmpdir} # Create tmp directory mkdir $tmpdir || exit 1 # Xtract the data portion ar p ${i} data.tar.gz | gunzip > ${tmpdir}/data.tar # Xtract the data portion ar p ${i} control.tar.gz | gunzip > ${tmpdir}/control.tar # Merge the two tar balls tar --concatenate --file=${tmpdir}/data.tar ${tmpdir}/control.tar # Gzip it. cat ${tmpdir}/data.tar | gzip -9 > `basename ${i} .deb`.tar.gz || exit 1 # Remove the tmp files rm -rf ${tmpdir}done