Geert Janssens <[email protected]> writes: > On 03-10-12 00:15, mrcardoor wrote: >> Gert, > It's Geert, not Gert but I know that's what you meant ;) >> >> I might be overlooking something but what about including a symbolic link >> in the gnucash-docs patch that would redirect help queries in gnucash 2.4.x >> (or if you rather, yelp) to the proper directory? >> > Thanks for your suggestion. I had thought of this and I know it works. I had > created some symlinks manually to verify if the new locations work well. > > I didn't pursue this solution because I don't know how to updated the makefile > in a way that distro maintainers can use it as is. In the makefiles several > macros are used. For creating directories there is a "macro" called > $mkinstalldirs, for copying files there is $INSTALL_DATA. I may be wrong, but > I > thought package management systems (rpm, dpkg,...) use their own code to > replace these. I didn't find a useful macro to create a symlink so I am unsure > what to do here. > > If I use ln -s in the make install step and rm <link> in the uninstall step, > would that be ok for packagers ? I have no idea. If so, that would be an easy > solution indeed.
That would be ok for Debian. Symlinks are supported in dpkg, and we don't use the uninstall rule. -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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