Re: Clarification of Policy and Packaging manuals requested
Zed Pobre wrote:
> 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.
This leaves you with a huge postinst file (probably 2x the size of the
actual file it generates), sitting in /var/lib/dpkg/info/. IMHO, worse than
just installing a copy of the file into /usr/lib/
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see shy jo
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