Guy Maor wrote: > > 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/ > > gzip + uuencode.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97>ls -l lambdacore -rw-rw-r-- 1 joey joey 2195405 Mar 10 1997 lambdacore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97>gzip -9 lambdacore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97>ls -l lambdacore.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 joey joey 615172 Mar 10 1997 lambdacore.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97>uuencode lambdacore.gz lambdacore.gz>lambdacore.gz.uu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97>ls -l lambdacore.gz.uu -rw-rw-r-- 1 joey joey 847604 Feb 24 23:09 lambdacore.gz.uu Yes, it's smaller than the original, but it's also much larger (13 thousand lines or so) than any postinst script I want to think about. -- see shy jo
