Packaging Starplot and related data files

[Hans de Goede]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 19:45 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 22:27 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
>>>>> Like you said, the modified .star files can't be distributed, but the
>>>>> ADC data files are fine to package as is, under the "Redistributable, no
>>>>> modification permitted".
>>>> Does this mean I can have a package whose spec file generates the
>>>> .star file from the catalog, so that installing starplot-gliese3
>>>> directly provides the .star file? (I think 'no'.)
>>> No, because we'd be distributing the .star files in that scenario.
>>>
>> What about a %post generating them under /var/lib ? I know this ain't pretty 
>> but I think it would solve the license issue.
> 
> Hmm, normally I'm against this, but if they were ghosted in the %files,
> the package would "own" them, and we wouldn't actually be distributing
> them.

I've done a little more research and I strongly believe that install time 
conversion is the answer. The data files in the format which we may distribute 
are not modified in essence. starplot comes with a conversion program to change 
them to its own format, I guess this is done once by a seperate conversion 
program and not on the fly when loading for performance reasons, so the 
converted files could be seen as cache files.

Regards,

Hans