> > Or better yet have the install script explain the situation and then ask > > you if you want it to download the version from an overseas mirror... and > > then install that over the top of the fake one. > > This seems a good idea, but there is one technical problem. You simply > can't call dpkg to install a package while dpkg is installing packages. > The only thing you could do is ask to download the package and then tell > the user where it is and how to install it. The fake ssh package could > have version number 0-1 or something like that, as long as it is less than > the version number of any real ssh package that has been released.
Why not just have it install a file called install-ssh and have it display as it installs a text file which expains that this is a dummy program and that they need to run this program (and make sure that their net connection is up) in order to get the real thing.. I would also be inclined to do it as a package called get-ssh (or whatever) which is replaced by the actual package rather then just have a low version number. As another though why not have an entire 'non-us.deb' package which installs scripts (or one master script which lets you select which package to install) for all the non-US packages... sorta like the FreeBSD ports collection. That would IMHO make more sense then having a dummy .deb package for each non-US package. Adam. +------------------------ Internet Alaska ------------------------+ 4050 Lake Otis Adam Shand (v) +1 907 562 4638 Anchorage, Alaska Systems Administrator (f) +1 907 562 1677 +----------------- http://larry.earthlight.co.nz -----------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .