Re: dpkg -i from within postinst script
Le Jeu 13 novembre 2008 12:26, Anton Piatek a écrit :
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> Installing this package pops up a debhelper choice of which packages
> they want to build and install. I suppose I am closest to m-a in how
> it is working.
> I would rather that this package pops up a menu each time it is
> reinstalled as it means users have some way of knowing a new upstream
> package is available should they wish to build and install it.
Ok, so you could use the second solution (as msttcorefont or
flashplayer-nonfree):
- postinst ask the user where the tar.gz file is
- if the user dont have it, postinst download it for him
- postinst installs the tar.gz in the right place and tracks the list of
files
- prerm delete the file tracked at the postinst stage.
So you do have a package (nearly empty) which installs the soft. The soft
is not included in the package but downloaded at install time, you can
remove the files installed and you can depend on this package.
Does it answer to your needs ?
Fanfan
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