On Apr 5, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
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.
Seems to be the only way.. just found this in libnet's makefile.pl:
sub MY::postamble {<<EOS;
distdir : run_cpansign
run_cpansign :
cpansign -sEOS
which of course creates massive breakage... seems re-extraction is the only sane way =/
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Jos Boumans
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