• Story4

Have "native" packages, fast-to-create

Status: planning

Use case: We should provide packages for our replacement libc6 (PlashGlibc) and for the GtkFilePowerboxHook LD_PRELOAD library. Currently, these files are installed in /usr/lib/plash on the host system, and must be granted to a sandboxed created by PackageSystem as a special case. Creating packages for these components would remove this special case.

Creating these packages involves:

• copying files to a temporary directory, debian/<package-name>

• running dpkg-deb to create a .deb
• adding the .deb to a Packages list file

and then to install them, the .deb is unpacked in one directory and hard links are created in another directory.