Symlink support
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Hi,
Thanks for the package, it's working quite well so far but I would like to get the final executable into PATH, looking at the code I can't see any easy way to do this as the final executable path after install is:
<parent>/<package>/<command>
Is there a way to add a symbolic link in say /usr/local/bin
to the installed executable. I tried using debian/package.links
(described in man dh_links
) but it doesn't appear to work.
Any pointers much appreciated, thanks!
Since current flutter_to_debian supports postinst
and prerm
, I could successfully create and remove a symlink to /usr/bin
when installing and uninstalling the debian package.
For example, write postinst
like
#!/bin/sh
ln -s /usr/local/lib/mega-cool-app/mega_cool_app /usr/bin/mega-cool-app
and prerm
like
#!/bin/sh
rm -f /usr/bin/mega-cool-app
and store them in debian/scripts
. These files will be packed and executed when installing and uninstalling a debian package.
In addition, I changed the permission of them to 755 (chmod 755 postinst
and chmod 755 prerm
) because in my case the default permission was 664 and it could not be packed in debian package.
Thanks for the pointer @ynyBonfennil, I had already done the postinst
script but it was a good reminder to add the pre-removal script!