On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Paul Elliott <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess my question is how to create the source package in the first place, > so that dpkg-source will have some thing to work with. In any case it would probably be better to just fix upstream to use a more standard tarball layout. If it were my role to do that I would use GNU automake to achieve it. I see. I never had to deal with such non-standard tarballs before, but after some experiments I would recommend the following. It will give you foo_1.2.3-1.debian.tar.gz, foo_1.2.3-1.dsc and foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz. pabs@chianamo:~/tmp/foo$ mv foo-1.2.3.tar.gz foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz pabs@chianamo:~/tmp/foo$ mkdir foo-1.2.3 pabs@chianamo:~/tmp/foo$ cd foo-1.2.3/ pabs@chianamo:~/tmp/foo/foo-1.2.3$ tar xf ../foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz pabs@chianamo:~/tmp/foo/foo-1.2.3$ dh_make Type of package: single binary, indep binary, multiple binary, library, kernel module, kernel patch? [s/i/m/l/k/n] s Maintainer name : Paul Wise Email-Address : [email protected] Date : Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:02:49 +0800 Package Name : foo Version : 1.2.3 License : blank Type of Package : Single Hit <enter> to confirm: Skipping creating ../foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz because it already exists Currently there is no top level Makefile. This may require additional tuning. Done. Please edit the files in the debian/ subdirectory now. You should also check that the foo Makefiles install into $DESTDIR and not in / . pabs@chianamo:~/tmp/foo/foo-1.2.3$ debuild -S -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
