On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > When you install crafty for the first time, it installed compiled > > opening books in /var/lib/crafty. Then, as it plays against you, it > > 'learns' from the games and add the new moves to the opening books > > that live in /var/lib/crafty. > > > Because You don't want your 'updated' opening books to be replaced by > > crafty's default ones when you install a new version of the package, > > these opening books are marked as conffiles. > > The bugs aren't just about the binary bit, they're also about the fact > that you shouldn't have conffiles in /var. >
I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-5.4.html) and obvioulsy tagged as conffiles (you don't want to lose your high scores files when upgrading the game). > > So, is it a problem to have conffiles being binary ? Do you have any > > idea about how I could fix this (if it actually has to be fixed)? > > You definately need to remove the conffiles from /var. > > Why not just ship the files in /usr/lib or something and then in the > postinst copy them to the place the package access them from if they > aren't already there? > I like this idea. Thanks for the tip. One drawback I see is that crafty-books-medium install a 30MB opening book file, if we go copying it from /usr/lib to /var/lib, we're wasting 30MB user's disk space, he might not like it. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]