On 2010-04-10, Aaron Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I'm trying to make a small binary package , which aims to install some > X11 fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype.
/usr/share/fonts/truetype -> not portable > Creating such a binary package will allow me to port it on any > UNIX/Linux system , very useful. > > Firstly i need to compress my fonts to a Font_Name.tar.bz2 , if i want > to put the extract script and Font_Name.tar.bz2 together , a single > bundle , howto archive it ? > > Right now , i tried to append the Archive to the script file , Then try > to read through the `setup file' except for the first 5 lines. > > #!/bin/bash /bin/bash -> not portable > tail +5 $0 | tar xvf - -C /tmp > exit 0 > #======================== > //Append Tar.Bz2 file bz2 -> not as portable as it could be relying on tar to autodetect compressed archives -> not portable running some random downloaded shell archive with sufficient permissions to install to /usr/share without a good way to inspect what it's going to overwrite -> not safe > Doesn't looks like a good way , anyone could help ? the simple portable safe way is a tar.gz with a README and ideally a Makefile. people know how to use these. use a variable for the install target so people can override it on the make(1) command line.
