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dpkg Internals Manual

Abstract

This manual describes the internal structure of the dpkg package management system.

Copyright Notice

Copyright ©1997 Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with your Debian system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or with the dpkg source package as the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Contents

• 1 Build Notes
• 1.1 Automake
• 1.2 Internationalization
• 2 Code Internals
• 2.1 Structure Definitons
• 2.2 Functions

dpkg Internals Manual