Jeremy Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> I have read the maintainer's guide that is at the Debian Documentation JH> Project, but it seems to only cover packages that require compiling - JH> which RCF doesn't. JH> JH> After running dh_make and cd'ing to the debian directory, is there a JH> file that allows you to tell dpkg (or whatever is handling the JH> package) to put certain files into certain places, and/or do certain JH> things? I've looked at the debian/rules files, but that refers to JH> compiling from source, and I don't need that!
The debian/rules file is the only thing that tells the package build system how to build a package. If you don't require any compilation, just don't call 'make' in debian/rules; this probably means you'll have an empty 'build' target, which is fine. I've found the dh_movefiles Debhelper script to be helpful in arranging files into packages, or you can manually call 'cp' or 'install' from debian/rules to get files from the source directory into debian/tmp or debian/packagename. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
