On 17-Jan-2001 Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Greetings, > > I'd like to be able to have a build-time setting determine the names of > binary packages. For example, on my petsc package: > > debian/rules PETSC_ARCH=linux_alpha_dec binary > > builds using the Compaq ccc compiler. I'd like to make it generate > packages with non-standard names, e.g. petsc-ccc-dev instead of > petsc-dev. This and some /etc/alternatives tricks would allow users to > insntall multiple versions and select between them. > > It doesn't seem like substvars can do this if there's more than one > binary package, since the filename needs the package name in it, e.g. > petsc-dbg.substvars. >
problem is you have to have valid package names in debian/control. Perhaps you could do something like a control.in which gets dynamically created based on the parameters you set.
