On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 07:23:11PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > > > I am packaging a program, which uses CRLF as end of line (don't ask me how > > > it got there :-)) > > > The problem is, I have to turn it to LF, because the program is a script > > > and won't run with CRLF. But if I do this, *.diff.gz will be as big as > > > *.orig.tar.gz. Isn't there a better way? Maybe running dos2unix in > > > debian/rules or so... > > > > That's what I'd do, creating new files in a staging subdirectory > > that you can remove in `make clean' (so that you can run > > `debian/rules binary' multiple times, so that the diff.gz stays > > small). > > Also, if the upstream source is .zip, you can use the -a switch when > you unzip it. Or you could just repack the .orig.tar.gz withe the > unix EOL conventions respected. >
upstream source is tar.gz I am not sure if repacking is a good idea.. after all, this means modifying the upstream source, and diff.gz is there for this purpose... -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
