Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On 11 May 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> > Not really. You could handle it just like redhat does in the srpm files: you
> > have a shell script that is responsible for unpacking the package into a
> > specific directory and applying all patches to it.
> 
> Remember: no shell scripts in the source packages that are needed for  
> unpacking. It's just too dangerous.
> 
> Ian convinced me of this one.

Maybe this could be solved with a new field:

    UnpackDir: /usr/src/debian

or for archives which unpack in ./

    UnpackDir: /usr/src/debian/package-version


There would then be a standard source unpacker script which did something
like:

    mkdir -p $UnpackDir
    cd $UnpackDir
    srcformat=`some-script-to-figure-out-what-it-is`
    case $srcformat in 
        tar.gz) ... ;;
        tar)    ... ;;
        shar)   ... ;;
        zip)    ... ;;
        arj)    ... ;;
    esac



Alternatively, for packages which have multiple original source
archives, the line specifying the archive name could have an optional
second field specifying the target directory. if blank, then unpack in
/usr/src/debian/, otherwise unpack in /usr/src/debian/$field2

"/usr/src/debian" mentioned for example purposes only. your preferences
may vary.


craig

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