Re: Clarification of Policy and Packaging manuals requested
Guy Maor wrote:
> > 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/
>
> gzip + uuencode.
joey@kite:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97>ls -l lambdacore
-rw-rw-r-- 1 joey joey 2195405 Mar 10 1997 lambdacore
joey@kite:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97>gzip -9 lambdacore
joey@kite:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97>ls -l lambdacore.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 joey joey 615172 Mar 10 1997 lambdacore.gz
joey@kite:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97>uuencode lambdacore.gz lambdacore.gz>lambdacore.gz.uu
joey@kite:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97>ls -l lambdacore.gz.uu
-rw-rw-r-- 1 joey joey 847604 Feb 24 23:09 lambdacore.gz.uu
Yes, it's smaller than the original, but it's also much larger (13 thousand
lines or so) than any postinst script I want to think about.
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see shy jo
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