DLoop comments

[Phillip Susi]

That's exactly what I mean when I say that only the binaries should be 
stripped.  The preinst and postinst scripts would still remain in the 
.deb and when you install it to a new location, the scripts would be run 
exactly like installing the package normally, the only thing that would 
change is that instead of extracting the binaries from the .deb, they 
would be pulled from their already installed locations.

That way you save the space, but still get the scripts to run.  I can 
think of at least one case where this would be usefull compared to just 
doing a copy from the cd filesystem.  When you install a kernel package, 
the install scripts run lilo to configure the system to boot the new 
kernel.  If you just copy the files from the cd, then you will have to 
make a new script for the install that copies the files, then configures 
lilo to make the hard drive bootable.

As the number of cases like this grows, so does the complexity of the 
install-by-copy script, which makes it harder to maintain.  I suppose 
though, that if the number of special cases remains small, then it isn't 
a big deal.

Martin Pitt wrote:
> 
> That's not equivalent to what installing a deb does. debs can have
> "preinst" scripts which are executed *before* files are unpacked. I
> guess that 99% of the preinst scripts just ensure clean upgrades,
> which is not an issue for a live CD, but it should at least be kept in
> mind that there is an at least theoretical potential for breakage
> there.
> 
> Martin
> 
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