On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 09:22:12 Glenn McGrath wrote: > hmm, im not sure its practical to create extra binary packages, wouldnt > it be more effective to exclude files from regular packages as its > installed.
I was suggesting that the script would create them on-the-fly -- they wouldn't reside anywhere as such. > It could use an external script like you mention in your second point. > > You could have some sort of wrapper around dpkg to do it, would be > easier than creating new tools, new packages. That's the sort of thing I meant, yeah. I suggested the existence of a tool which would handle all this sort of thing to create a whole filesystem, or individual small packages which could be transferred onto an embedded system and `dpkg -i'ed. c.
