by Chris10 » Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:53 pm
I think you can package anything (not anything, but any file/files). In the ubuntu repo's some apps have there binary files packages separately to the data. This is how flightgear is packaged.
The nice thing about using debs is that your not re-writing code that already exists, ubuntu can handle dependencies, updates and installations, all we have to do is package the stuff.
Unfortunately I have a very limited understanding of the packaging system and have never packaged anything before, I am looking in to it currently but I have enough trouble keeping ubuntu bootable let alone usable.
What would be useful (I think) is some scripts (bash maybe) that can be use to create packages for scenery and aircraft. Once you have scripts made for the process it becomes really simple. You could even use quickly (an ubuntu packaging tool) to do the upload for you.