Re: binary files in diff

["Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org>]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Frank Küster wrote:

> "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Ah, that's great.  Can you give a short usage example - I would then
> prepare a patch for the developer's reference.

This is how I handled the Debian open logo in webmin.

In the clean target:

perl -ne 'print pack "u", $$_;' debian/debiantheme/openlogo-50.png > debian/debiantheme/openlogo-50.uue
-rm debian/debiantheme/openlogo-50.png

And in the install target:

perl -ne 'print unpack "u", $$_;' debian/debiantheme/openlogo-50.uue > debian/debiantheme/openlogo-50.png
-rm debian/debiantheme/openlogo-50.uue


Note $ signs in perl have to be doubled as debian/rules is a makefile and 
they will get interpreted otherwise.

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