On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:33:53PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I have now moved the initial files in /usr/lib/games/crafty. They are then
> > copied in postinst to /var/lib/games/crafty, not overwriting anything in
> > the process. The files are removed in postrm on purge as you suggested.
>
> The files can be pretty big, can't they?
Indeed. From the read.me:
large.zip, medium.zip and small.zip are the raw input files to make
the three different sized books. large produces a 60mb opening
database with 100K GM games; medium produces a 30MB database, and
small will produce a 1MB database.
and there's even larger collection, 'enormous', input file(s) being
roughly one gigabyte after unzipped, I haven't tried how huge database can
be generated from it, but I can imagine.
Hmm, this sounds like far too easy way for users to fill up /var
partition (crafty is setgid games and the files in /var group-writable.)
Any thoughts?
> I think it would be a nice modification to make crafty read from the
> ones in /usr if the ones in /var are not present, but always write out
> changes to the ones in /var; creatingt them if necessary. Then if you
> never run it in learning mode, you don't waste disk space.
Yes, I agree.
> > There were no lintian errors or warnings this time. I have tested that the
> > package can be installed, upgraded, removed and purged cleanly. As before,
> > the files are available at http://togo.dhs.org/debian/
>
> Do you need sponsoring?
Yes please.
Just to make things clear, my intention is not to adopt this package and
like I said earlier I'm not a Debian developer. I just wanted to have more
up to date version packaged and doing it myself seemed to be the fastest
way.
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Tommi Komulainen Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi
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