Hello, 2009/5/17 Rogério Brito <[email protected]>: > On May 12 2009, LI Daobing wrote: >> and you need not (or should not) repack the upstream tarball if the >> upstream tarball is already in .tar.gz format. rename or make a soft >> link is enough. > > There's no need to use a symlink. dpkg-source is smart enough to > understand a lot of odd-ball tarballs. See, for instance, my package > hfsprogs (which Apple calls "diskdev_cmds" or something similar). > > If you unpack the orig.tar.gz from my package, you can see that > dpkg-source even renames the directory that would be created to > something that we want. > I mean:
1. download foo-1.2.3.tar.gz 2. run "ln -s foo-1.2.3.tar.gz foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz", so debuild can recognize that you already have a orig tarball -- Best Regards LI Daobing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
