nexuiz

[Bruno Kleinert]

This one time, at band camp, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> i imported nexuiz and nexuiz-data to the repository. currently
> nexuiz-data is a package, that will install the game data in the
> postinst script. i chose to do it that way, as it was more suitable for
> my home environment, where i used these packages for some time. it also
> saves the 160mb in the .deb file. but it wouldn't be a big deal to add
> the game data to the nexuiz-data package, as the whole game is gpl'ed
> and if traffic on mirrors isn't a problem...
> 
> cheers, fuddl
> 
> -- 
> Among elephants it's not considered cool nor in any good taste
> to drain other elephants
> 
> 
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i spent some minutes on nexuiz today. i thought of an method how to
split up the huge -data package into smaller packages, but i reached a
point, i'd need help.

the nexuiz-data package mainly contains only one single .pk3 file,
which is simply a zip-archive. so my first thought was to extract that
archive and split the directory structure it contains into several
small packages. but the uncompressed directory structure takes about
500MB disk space (the zip archive only takes 180MB). eeehm... bad idea,
to blow up the data, in my opinion! :)

but as the pk3 file is just a simple zip-archive it can be build by
using the zip package. i'd like to split up its content into small
packages which have a postinst script (the only thing i can think of,
at the moment... better solutions wanted!!!) that extract the installed
pk3 file, add updates/changes from a newly installed/updated package
and create an updated pk3 file from the content of the package. it
sounds ugly, but managable to me... but all necessary packages, which
rebuild the pk3 file take the same 500Megs of disk space... is there a
solution the-way-debian-intended, how to manage the content of a
package, which is only needed once at installation time?

otherwise the nexuiz packages appear quite finished to me. perhaps a dd
would like to have a look at them.

cheers - fuddl


-- 
Among elephants it's not considered cool nor in any good taste
to drain other elephants


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