Extracting a file from a .deb 
Friday, July 15, 2005, 12:00 PM - Tech
A debian package (.deb) is nothing but an ar(1) archive, so you can use ar(1) to extract files from it. The actual files contained in the .deb are stored in the data.tar.gz archive within the .deb[\code].

Example: Suppose you hosed your Debian Linux machine's /lib/libc-2.2.5.0.so. To retrieve this file from the official Debian package, fetch the file Packages from your mirrors dists/woody/main/binary-i386 directory. From that file, you can determine that the proper debian package to fetch is pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb. Download that file and extract the correct libc:
$ ar x libc6_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb
$ tar zxf data.tar.gz ./lib/libc-2.2.5.so

Boot your hosed machine from a rescue or install floppy/CD, mount the filesystem and copy the new file into place. Reboot. Voil, all's peachy again.
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Advogato entry: 2004-04-26 08:43:11 
Monday, April 26, 2004, 08:43 AM - Advogato, NetBSD
NetBSD now a trademark
The NetBSD Foundation is proud to announce that it has registered
the ``NetBSD'' trademark.
The foundation would like to thank Jay Michaelson (Wasabi Systems) for
filing the application and providing answers to the US Patent Office,
and Carl Oppedahl (Oppedahl & Larson) for giving advice and keeping the
Foundation informed about the process. An official policy on the use
of the NetBSD trademark is currently being drafted and will be
made public soon.

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Advogato entry: 2004-04-08 08:47:30 
Thursday, April 8, 2004, 08:47 AM - Advogato, NetBSD
NetBSD Status Report&
In order to provide a summary of the most
important changes over the last few months, the NetBSD Foundation has decided
to follow the example of other projects of releasing official status reports
on a regular basis. The first quarterly status report, covering the
activities within the NetBSD Project during the first three months of 2004 is
now .

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Advogato entry: 2004-04-05 06:18:19 
Monday, April 5, 2004, 06:18 AM - Advogato, NetBSD
Of course it runs NetBSD: NetBSD/xen!

Christian Limpach imported a new port into the NetBSD source tree: NetBSD/xen. Xen is is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Xen is Open Source software. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ for more details on Xen or join the port-xen mailinglist.

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Advogato entry: 2004-03-29 08:31:48 
Monday, March 29, 2004, 08:31 AM - Advogato, NetBSD
NetBSD Packages Collection releases a new branch!
On behalf of the pkgsrc team, Alistair
Crooks announced today that a new pkgsrc-2004Q1 branch of the NetBSD Packages Collection was created last night, and the freeze on committing to the
pkgsrc trunk is now over. This branch, which includes some 4518
actively-maintained and supported packages, introduces a self-hosted pkgsrc
infrstructure as part of the ever growing support of even more operating
systems as well as a number of other goodies. Please see Alistair's message to the netbsd-announce mailing list for details.



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