On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:19:42AM +0200, Jos I. Boumans wrote: > The reason something like this is needed (but i've found another way, > i'll explain shortly) is that some distributions leave files in their > dist directory after a 'make test' that should have been cleaned up > with a 'make realclean'. > Notorious example here is Compress::Zlib which leaves a 'test.gz' after > make test. > This one is double bad because it's also a binary file, which means > (and here's the real thing), that packaging tools that rely on diff > (like debhelper) go crazy and just break down. > > I've used 'make distdir' now to get a clean *copy* of what the orignal > tarball was like according to the manifest.. there's some small hickups > with M::B there (i'll send them in seperate reports) but that seeems to > mostly do what i need.
Why don't you just delete the directory and unpack a fresh tarball? Take off and nuke the site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.
