When I remaster the CDs and DVD and I'd prefer to install deb packages containing recitations. And the PPA is limited to 1GB so we should also have downloadable files. So the solution with two kinds of deb packages seems fine to me.
wa salam - Mehdi Administrator of the Ubuntu Muslim Edition project www.ubuntume.com #ubuntume on irc.freenode.net jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:18 -0400, محمد wrote: > Salaam, > > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:57 +0300, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > > as-salamu alaykom, > > > > I think we can do something like what's done in flashplugin-nonfree > > package, please have a look at it. What the package does is that it > > downloads the flashplugin tarball from adobe's website & install it in > > the system, there is also an option to install from a tarball that you > > already have on disk (in case you do not want to download that is). I > > think we can do the same for offline recitations, they can be put in > > a tarball (or separate tarballs, one for each recitor), then we make a > > debian package that downloads the tarballs & installs them (or installs > > from existing tarballs). Then we can put those tarball(s) on the > > second CD (or DVD). > > I think the reason flashplugin-nonfree was build like that is its > license issues. Since the original package is adobe's copyright the deb > package at the time of installation downloads the plugin from adobe's > site. > > Ahmed is it because the launchpad gives limited space to the ubumtume > repository that you prefer the idea of downloading the audio files > separately or is there any other reason? > > Since I know some people do not have permanent access to the high speed > internet they may download the recitation deb packages once they have > access to the internet and try to install them later. Because of this > issue I am more willing to build deb packages which contain audio files > and upload them to the sourceforge. > But downloading from a repository is a different story, so we can have > two kinds of deb packages those containing the audio files and are > downloadable from the sourceforge and those which are like > flashplugin-nonfree and are downloadable from the repositories. > > any idea? > > Best, > Mohammad > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntume.team > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/people/+me/+editemails > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntume.team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/people/+me/+editemails More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
