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Re: apt (was: Re: [Plug] redhat 6.1 insllation)
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> > It only needs the control file from each package. I doubt that any of the
> > control files are larger than 1k; here's an example:
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> Ah, okay. The header information is kept in a separate file.
You're half right. The control file for each package is found within its
deb file. However, on every Debian mirror, there is a Packages.gz file in
each directory which contains all of the control files concatenated.
-mct
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