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@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ opkg-opk provides information about packages built by opkbuild for opkg.
It is similar to Debian's dpkg-deb, however it provides only control
file printing and data file listing.
+opkg-opk exists to be able to list files in packages on other system
+distributions. Whereas tar expects user and group IDs and names to
+match between the system that created an archive and the system that
+reads it, opkg-opk does no such verification.
+
Copyright
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