On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:34:59PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a tarfile for a debian-original program (i.e no .orig or
> maintainer version), and I also have it uncompressed. When I run
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot from the uncompressed directory, it
> overwrites my tarfile.
>
> How do I stop it from doing that? I want to have the "original" tarfile
> that I extracted from my CVS also as the official Debian source
> tarfile, not one created during the build process.
Try using the -b/-B option to dpkg-buildpackage.
Julian
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