Re: Clarification of Policy and Packaging manuals requested
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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> The problem with this that have came up during this discussion was that
> some packages have files like this, that are a few MB in size (ie, the
> lambdamoo database, the dosemu hdimage). These files are obviously way to big
> to be generated by the postinst. Manoj made several suggestions to work around
Actually, I was thinking of the way that I received my first copy
of Nethack years and years ago and was wondering if maybe those files
*aren't* too big to be generated by the postinst.
Shar-utils.
Even if it's a binary, it can be packaged up by uudecode, catted out
of a wrapper shell script, decoded and copied to the correct location, and
subsequently deleted by a postrm if necessary. If this is the way that we
want to go with such things, however, then it needs to go into the
packaging manual. It will also create a dependency upon shar-utils
for whatever packages use that technique.
I got my first copy of Nethack off of a usenet group many moons
ago, more or less in this format. I had to manually strip off the
message headers, but after that, the binaries were created by making
the file I had saved executable and running it. It was kind of a
novel experience for me at the time. I was relatively new to Unix and
somewhat easily impressed, but it struck me as a useful idea.
Something to think about anyway.
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