Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:14:55PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> >
> > > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled
> > > opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it
> > > 'learns' from the games and add the new moves to the opening books
> > > that live in /var/lib/crafty.
> >
> > > Because You don't want your 'updated' opening books to be replaced by
> > > crafty's default ones when you install a new version of the package,
> > > these opening books are marked as conffiles.
> >
> > The bugs aren't just about the binary bit, they're also about the fact
> > that you shouldn't have conffiles in /var.
> >
>
> I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores
> files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4
> (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-5.4.html) and
> obvioulsy tagged as conffiles (you don't want to lose your
> high scores files when upgrading the game).
>
> > > So, is it a problem to have conffiles being binary ? Do you have any
> > > idea about how I could fix this (if it actually has to be fixed)?
> >
> > You definately need to remove the conffiles from /var.
> >
> > Why not just ship the files in /usr/lib or something and then in the
> > postinst copy them to the place the package access them from if they
> > aren't already there?
> >
>
> I like this idea. Thanks for the tip.
>
> One drawback I see is that crafty-books-medium install a 30MB opening
> book file, if we go copying it from /usr/lib to /var/lib, we're
> wasting 30MB user's disk space, he might not like it.
What about a symlink ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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