Hi Maarten, Le 29/09/2021 à 17:28, Andreas Tille a écrit :
Should I add a call to this update script in the post install hook? Having 500MB of data in Debian that's probably updated the very next day after installation seems very inconvenient, right?I'm not sure whether we have example solutions here. But this kind of volatile data should probably not be part of a package.
The example I can think of is sepp: it provides tipp, which requires approx. 200 MB of data to be downloaded in order to be run.
I have decided to let the burden of downloading those data (which could also be volatile, as Andreas underlines) to the user by adding a README.Debian file [0] and also information in the manpage [1] of the program.
My concern with this is the average user might not even know about the README.Debian file and could forget to check in the manpage. But I am unsure there is a better way, as a debconf information, for instance, would be shown only once and only to the system administrator...
Best regards, -- Pierre[0] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/sepp/-/blob/master/debian/README.Debian [1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/sepp/-/blob/master/debian/man/run_tipp.py.1