On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:18:54PM -0400, محمد wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:57 +0300, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > > as-salamu alaykom, > > > > I think we can do something like what's done in flashplugin-nonfree > > package, please have a look at it. What the package does is that it > > downloads the flashplugin tarball from adobe's website & install it in > > the system, there is also an option to install from a tarball that you > > already have on disk (in case you do not want to download that is). I > > think we can do the same for offline recitations, they can be put in > > a tarball (or separate tarballs, one for each recitor), then we make a > > debian package that downloads the tarballs & installs them (or installs > > from existing tarballs). Then we can put those tarball(s) on the > > second CD (or DVD). > > I think the reason flashplugin-nonfree was build like that is its > license issues. Since the original package is adobe's copyright the deb > package at the time of installation downloads the plugin from adobe's > site. That brings up the issue of license indeed. What is the license of Qur'anic recitations ?
> Ahmed is it because the launchpad gives limited space to the ubumtume > repository that you prefer the idea of downloading the audio files > separately or is there any other reason? That's one reason yes, actually I once asked about making a package that contains books (for Thwab), and people in Debian didn't like the idea. If I recall correctly, I think they suggested something like what I've mentioned. > Since I know some people do not have permanent access to the high speed > internet they may download the recitation deb packages once they have > access to the internet and try to install them later. Because of this > issue I am more willing to build deb packages which contain audio files > and upload them to the sourceforge. Well, the recitations tarballs can exist on CD too, so they will be available for people without high speed internet access, but in tarballs instead of debs. > But downloading from a repository is a different story, so we can have > two kinds of deb packages those containing the audio files and are > downloadable from the sourceforge and those which are like > flashplugin-nonfree and are downloadable from the repositories. I don't like this idea because it means maintaining two types of packages that at the end do the same thing. -- أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) Digital design engineer SySDSoft, Inc. GPG KeyID: 0x9DCA0B27 (@ subkeys.pgp.net) GPG Fingerprint: 087D 3767 8CAC 65B1 8F6C 156E D325 C3C8 9DCA 0B27 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntume.team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/people/+me/+editemails More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
