On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 06:40:55PM +0100, Philipp Meier wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:11:58AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > The problem is, that if you have postinst delete the files, they are > > still registered as belonging to the package. Which is bad, because > > they wouldn't exist. Donno if there's a way of unregistering files > > (other than parsing /var/lib/dpkg/info/$pkg.list). > > > > The only way to use a file which is not "included in the .deb" > > (according to dpkg -L) is to create the file. In this case, by > > ungzipping them from their compressed form in /usr/share/$pkg/. So > > you still must provide the files "in the .deb". Including them via > > ./debian/$pkg/tmp/ is bad, because pacakges shouldn't own files in > > /tmp. Okay, so there's one exception: > > Can't the file be included in uuencoded form in the postinst script and > be extracted by postinst to a temporary location? Yes, but then it will still persist, after post-installation, as /var/lib/dpkg/info/$pkg.postinst. It will just be more obfuscated than /usr/share/$pkg/.
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