Zed Pobre wrote: > Actually, I was thinking of the way that I received my first copy > of Nethack years and years ago and was wondering if maybe those files > *aren't* too big to be generated by the postinst.
> Shar-utils. > Even if it's a binary, it can be packaged up by uudecode, catted out > of a wrapper shell script, decoded and copied to the correct location, and > subsequently deleted by a postrm if necessary. If this is the way that we > want to go with such things, however, then it needs to go into the > packaging manual. It will also create a dependency upon shar-utils > for whatever packages use that technique. 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/ -- see shy jo
