#!/bin/sh set -ef # assume that both data.tar and control.tar are compressed with same compressor # if dpkg-deb can handle control.tar.* then it will handle data.tar.* too if dpkg-deb --ctrl-tarfile "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then exec dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile "$1" fi me=${0##*/} log() { echo "${me}: $*" 1>&2 ; } # here we're unpacking data.tar.* manually # naive test for .deb file # also check `ar' presense ar t "$1" >/dev/null data_tar= while read -r pkg_member ; do [ -n "${pkg_member}" ] || continue if [ -n "${data_tar}" ] ; then log "extra data tarball '${pkg_member}' in package $1 - bailing out" exit 1 fi data_tar="${pkg_member}" done <<-EOF $(ar t "$1" | grep -E '^data\.tar') EOF decomp= case "${data_tar}" in data.tar.gz) decomp='gzip' ;; data.tar.xz) decomp='xz' ;; data.tar.zst) decomp='zstd' ;; esac if [ -z "${decomp}" ] ; then log "unable to handle '${data_tar}' from $1 - compression type isn't known to script" exit 1 fi if ! command -v ${decomp} >/dev/null ; then log "enable to find '${decomp}'" exit 1 fi ar p "$1" "${data_tar}" | ${decomp} -d