On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: > build time. For questions of maintenance and bandwidth, I've chosen not to > include the Samba source in the tarball; I find that automatically downloading I'm facing the same problem. I have a binary-all data package that is 26MB in size. I am not about to have both the binary .deb and source .deb 26MB in size... so I have a donwload target that will download upstream data in /tmp if it is not already there, and unpack it into the build tree. > The question is, is it acceptable to do this in a Debian package? There are Yes, AFAIK. Not that it is a good thing to do, mind you. However do think about the autobuilders while designing it (I didn't have to bother with them since my package is binary-all). Also, you should use sources from the Debian samba package (probably using dpkg-source to unpack them in your build tree, and apt-get source to retrieve it...). You may also need to have your module package ensure that incompatible versions of the samba package and the module package aren't installed in the same system... IMHO one should also always allow for a local copy of the 'donwloadable' data you would want to fetch from the net. It's probably best to store it in $TMPDIR -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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