Hi! First of all, you might want to disable HTML mail (I fished this out of my spam mail box). Second, this is probably more a material for the debian-mentors mailing list, but anyway.
On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 10:44:58 +0530, prashant tyagi wrote: > How can we create .deb packages with volatile file. A volatile file is a > file whose content may change after installation. Assuming we are not talking about any kind of cache, log or similar. There's three main options: 1) Ship an initial file that gets modified later on, but this will make the file hashes not match with stuff like debsums or the upcoming «dpkg --verify». While this might be the most convenient option I think it's just wrong. 2) Do not ship the file, and generate it at installation time, or run-time or whenever, but you'll have to deal with the removal manually in the maintainer scripts. This is the more correct but slightly more cumbersome option. 3) If the volatile file changes are due to external forces, like updates from a website or similar, then it might be best to automatically generate a new package every time these files change, and ship them normally in a repository package. In the future, dpkg might adquire the ability to register external files, and one kind of such files could be changing files, so dpkg would take care of removing them, and would not store file hashes, etc. > I could not find any documentation regarding volatile file in .deb package. I'll update the FAQ. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
