Oi Henrique, On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> I'm facing the same problem. I have a binary-all data package that is 26MB > in size. I am not about to have both the binary .deb and source .deb 26MB in > size... so I have a donwload target that will download upstream data in /tmp > if it is not already there, and unpack it into the build tree. >> The question is, is it acceptable to do this in a Debian package? There >> are > Yes, AFAIK. Not that it is a good thing to do, mind you. > However do think about the autobuilders while designing it (I didn't have to > bother with them since my package is binary-all). Also, you should use > sources from the Debian samba package (probably using dpkg-source to unpack > them in your build tree, and apt-get source to retrieve it...). But there is yet another complication... the module source-depends on a newer version of Samba (2.2.0-alpha3) than is currently available in the Debian archives. :/ If I include Samba 2.2.0-alpha3 with my package, I add 5MB to all of the Debian archives; if I download it from the samba.org mirror sites, I chew up bandwidth on the autobuilders. So right now there's no solution I like. I just want to find the least-bad solution. > You may also need to have your module package ensure that incompatible > versions of the samba package and the module package aren't installed in the > same system... I have honestly not found a case yet where any version of pam_smbpass was *binary*-incompatible with any version of Samba; the smbpasswd file format they both work with doesn't change often. The only reason for a source dependency on a specific version of Samba is that I must patch the Samba build scripts, and Makefile.in/configure.in DO change frequently. > IMHO one should also always allow for a local copy of the 'donwloadable' > data you would want to fetch from the net. It's probably best to store it in > $TMPDIR Hmm, I think this should be doable, yes; I do something similar in the upstream. Thanks for the hint! Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
