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eddelbuettel / mkl4deb

Adding the Intel MKL to a Debian / Ubuntu system via one simple script
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Translating into duprkit recipe #6

Closed cdluminate closed 5 years ago

cdluminate commented 5 years ago

My experimental toolkit (assume that you have seen my mails on -devel) enables user to manage tricks with dpkg. The trick means something trivial that cannot be uploaded to Debian, but some people will use it to modify the system, e.g. the not-quite-safe apt accelerator: https://github.com/dupr/duprkit/blob/master/examples/apt-nosync.rcp mkl4deb is a good example of "trick" as well. Does it sound good if I translate your script into a Recipe as an experiment?

That means, the user can build a mkl4deb.deb package (empty). Upon postinst, your script will be executed. Upon prerm, the update-alternative changes will be reverted. In that case this "trick" is managed by dpkg and the user can do less.

eddelbuettel commented 5 years ago

Sure, I don't see why not. We could even turn it into a visible script in the path (maybe update_mkl or something) if we write a minimal manual page too.

eddelbuettel commented 5 years ago

Upon reflection, it seems that you can simply create a suitable 'duprkit' recipe without me doing anything here. If that is indeed the case, why don't we close this ticket?