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opkg-opk
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opkg-opk provides information about and builds packages for opkg(-lede).
It is similar to Debian's dpkg-deb.

opkg-opk provides two key benefits over building and reading packages
with the conventional tar utility:

 1. It can 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.
 2. It can build packages with changed ownership and device nodes
    without privileges normally needed with chown and mknod.  As a
    caveat, because opkg-opk is designed to not require privileges, it
    can't extract data; use opkg(-lede) or tar for this instead.

Copyright
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Copyright (C) 2023  Patrick McDermott

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