Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:32:01PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> >> Ok but one question remains: When I unpacked the original sources, I had >> to rename the resulting dir to calm dh_make down -- when I now unpack the >> .zip in order to make an .orig.tar.gz out of it, do I have to rename the >> dir too or has the .orig.tar.bz an exact copy of the .zip? > > Usually, it is a good idea to keep the original tarball as it is, so the > directory it unpacks to should not be changed. dpkg-buildpackage will > handle > it if it doesn't unpack to the "correct" name. The reason for keeping the > original is as far as I understood it that the md5 checksum is the same as > the distributed version. > > However, since your distribution is a zip file, and not a tar.gz, that > doesn't > work anyway. So you can make it the renamed directory I guess. But > there's > not really any reason to do so, as dpkg-buildpackage doesn't need it. So > I would just unzip, then tar -czf, and name it .orig.tar.gz.
Hmm now I am a bit surprised: I've observed, that after running dh_make in dir "foo-1.0", it creates a dir named "foo-1.0.orig" right besides "foo-1.0". And after debuild, I have "foo_1.0.orig.tar.gz" too -- so I guess dbuild cares about everything and there is no need to create an *.orig.tar.gz by yourself. And so I guess my original question was only foundet in the fact, that I removed the foo-1.0.orig dir a bit too fast (I thought I would not need it, since I keep my orignal .zip). Can anybody confirm my thoughts on this? Kind regards Bastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
