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Cool! Does anybody know if there are plans to fix the .deb size limit? It's a bummer that .debs can't be more than 10 GB. That number seems big, but I've hit i
by nrclark 7y ago
Cool!
Does anybody know if there are plans to fix the .deb size limit? It's a bummer that .debs can't be more than 10 GB. That number seems big, but I've hit it before when packaging custom toolchains for internal use at my company.
- teruakohatu 7y agoCan't you just create a dependancy and split it up?
- nrclark 7y agoDefinitely possible in theory. Kind of a pain in practice though. I was working on trying to package Xilinx Vivado for internal use on my company's build servers. It's around a 20-25GB installation, mostly of smallish files. I could have definitely manually split the package up. It's the kind of thing that's hard to do algorithmically though. After a day or so of trying to solve the packaging problem, I eventually gave up on the idea altogether. Large software installs are still fairly uncommon on Linux, but I see more and more of them in the wild. Especially when I look at some games and stuff - I have a bunch of software that's larger than 10 GB. It's kind of nuts that the .deb package format is still so constrained, especially considering its importance to so many distros.