Jesse Alama wrote: >>> All that I can offer is that, when building my package in maintainer >>> mode, I was able to successfully build the deb. I'm not sure if >>> maintainer mode uses /usr/bin/tar, though. >> Can you not patch the package so that it does not install or need files >> with "special" file names? > > The special file names are used in an essential way by the programs in > the package. I think that, in this case, modifying the program so that > the special files go by different names would require some non-trivial > work on my part, work that would make me more of an upstream developer > than a fink packager.
Then I can only suggest renaming the files after install to the staging dir, then renaming them back again in a postinstall script, ugly as heck, but should work. What do others do with this, did you search for debian, redhat packages for this and see if they needed to do anything? Peter -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
