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| de-facto | Guys is that an easy way to create a .deb out of a .sh installer? maybe a wrapper script that tracks written files with a chroot-like env? | 13:17 |
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| de-facto | Background: I have to install Mathematica which comes with a mathematica.sh installer and I would like to have its file tracked by apt | 13:18 |
| tomreyn | there is checkinstall, but it may not catch everything. | 13:23 |
| de-facto | Is that capable of running a .sh script? i thought it would invoke "make install" | 13:23 |
| de-facto | there also is alien, though again not sure if it can work on a .sh install script | 13:25 |
| de-facto | its a Makeself version 2.1.1 | 13:26 |
| tomreyn | makeself concatenates an 'installer' shell script and a large binary blob, which is the actual payload. | 13:34 |
| tomreyn | http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man8/checkinstall.8.html states "checkinstall is a program that monitors an installation procedure (such as install, install.sh ), and creates a standard package for distribution" | 13:35 |
| tomreyn | that binary blob is a standard file archive, which could be handled by tar. | 13:37 |
| de-facto | yes its a tar appended to a sh script | 13:37 |
| de-facto | i was hoping something like this exists for debian based systems too https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mathematica/ | 13:38 |
| tomreyn | this 'package' axctually runs the installer | 13:45 |
| de-facto | yeah its not just an extract, a closed source Unix/Installer/MathInstaller is run from makeself | 13:47 |
| de-facto | actually I just dont like the idea of a closed source binary writing in arbitraty directories on my system without apt keeping track of the files | 13:49 |
| de-facto | thats why i want to have a deb | 13:49 |
| de-facto | maybe I can use the same approach the livecd from ubuntu uses and put the installer insde an overlayfs ? | 13:54 |
| de-facto | something like that here? https://askubuntu.com/questions/109413/how-do-i-use-overlayfs | 13:56 |
| tomreyn | you could try using open source software instead. ;) | 14:47 |
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