Apt-get :: problems saving Debian packages between sessions

Ok, I see what you're saying now. But it won't make any difference except to possibly use up more resources to rename .tar.gz to .dsl.
If you don't need to run mkwritable to install what you need, you're probably better off using .tar.gz (or .uci, which at runtime is the same type of application as .tar.gz)

No problem writing to /usr/local, but /opt is a read_only system. I haven't experimented with the mkwritable script.

Note: I just read: "*.tar.gz extensions extract into ramdisk, which means the entire application is installed in ram (unless you are using a persistent /opt directory). However, these applications are installed in the /opt directory as self-contained programs, which means they do not write to potentially hazardous locations such as /usr or /sbin."

EDIT: I thought that loading the .tar.gz app created a folder in /opt, but it doesn't (it created one from something else I tried). I have my .tar.gz app installing files and subdirectories into /usr/local/share, not ram or the /opt directory. It appears to act exactly like a .dsl extension.

Quote (mikshaw @ June 01 2007,17:30)

If you don't need to run mkwritable to install what you need, you're probably better off using .tar.gz (or .uci, which at runtime is the same type of application as .tar.gz)

I finally found that script, which is "mkwriteable" not "mkwritable,"
located in /etc/init.d/

Running /etc/init.d/mkwriteable loads /usr, /bin/, /lib, /sbin into the ramdisk allowing you to write to these directories. Loading a .dsl extension runs the script automatically.

ah...sorry. There comes a problem when you're trying to find a file whose name contains a typo =o)
(writeable is not an english word)

Quote (mikshaw @ June 02 2007,20:44)

ah...sorry. There comes a problem when you're trying to find a file whose name contains a typo =o)

Only for goons like myself figuring this out for the first time.

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