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Free Injections
June 7, 2007 - 21:21 — apachelogger
The Amarok project is very proud to offer you free (as in free beer) injections ... into your Kubuntu DPKG.
Everything started with:
And ended with inject.rb .. now as a packager I'd say WTF... this is total bullshit and dangerous as hell ... on the other hand, DPKG doesn't offer any possability to tell it that a certain package is installed from source. Anyway, it's a nice Ruby hack.
Really, I have to repeat: don't use this script if you don't have a really good reason for doing so, and you most probably should also know what you're doing
Everything started with:
apachelogger: if your still here, is it possible to uninstall amarok without uninstall kubuntu-desktop? no eean: why would you uninstall amarok? really? :/ switching to svn I can produce a fake package if you want to
And ended with inject.rb .. now as a packager I'd say WTF... this is total bullshit and dangerous as hell ... on the other hand, DPKG doesn't offer any possability to tell it that a certain package is installed from source. Anyway, it's a nice Ruby hack.
- One starts the script with ruby inject.rb APP VERSION (e.g. ruby inject.rb amarok feisty)
- now the script creats some dirs and generic debian build files
- finally it runs some debhelper scripts to create the actual package, which includes nothing more than nothing
- in the end it cleans up and installs the package
Really, I have to repeat: don't use this script if you don't have a really good reason for doing so, and you most probably should also know what you're doing