On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Frank Gevaerts may or may not have written...I need to add a binary file (a png icon) to my package. What is the best way to do this, since the "normal" .diff generation does not support this ?UUcode seems to be the usual way (needs sharutils).
Note perl has the ability to uudecode and encode builtin (perldoc -f pack or unpack and look at the u option.) As perl is an essential package, by using it you can save yourself a needless dependency.
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