Hello, Dave Martin [2010-08-06 13:35 +0100]: > Just to clarify my meaning--- I expected to have a tarball per > package, not one massive tarball for the whole system... the cost of > maintaining the latter would certainly get very unpleasant for people.
Hm, but then you wouldn't save a lot -- you'd have a small tarball instead of a small copyright file, and the only thing you'd save would be the directory entry. > I can foresee problems if a post-unpack hook creates a file dpkg > doesn't know about --- the tarball (presumably not in the package's > file list) could silently be overwritten when installing another > package. Creating files dpkg doesn't know about is not a problem per se -- but of course dpkg wouldn't know how to remove it on removal or upgrade, so you have to cope with all of those in the hook. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
