On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:52:56AM -0400, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: > I've been working on packaging some files under debian for quite some > time. However recently I just got stuck with a fairly odd problem. What > I want to do is be able to assign different version numbers to pacakges > built from the same source distribtuion. I figured that this could be > done via changelogs for each individual package, however I kept getting > errors during the dh_gencontrol step about conflicting values. > > Here is what I want to do (in summary) > > source pacakge foo. will build four packages (foo, bar, baz, qux). foo > and bar are both version 1.0 and baz and qux are version 2.0. Is it > possible to get this to work using a single debian packaging directory?
Use: dh_gencontrol -p$(PACKAGE) -v$(VERSION) you then just need to call dh_gencontrol multiple times, once for each package. See the debian/rules of gcc-defaults for a (somewhat complicated) example. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
