Hello, On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Michael Gissing wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not sure whether that's the suitable mailing list, so if theres > a better one I would really appreciate a hint.
The correct list is debian-mentors@lists.debian.org. debian-dpkg is to discuss the development of dpkg itself. (Keeping lots of context for debian-mentors) > I'm trying to build a package using dpkg-buildpackage and debhelper. [...] > dh binary > dh_testroot > dh_prep > rm -f debian/mypackage.substvars > rm -f debian/mypackage.*.debhelper > rm -rf debian/mypackage/ > rm -rf debian/tmp > dh_installdirs > install -d debian/mypackage > install -d debian/mypackage/usr/bin > debian/mypackage/var/mypackage/nv debian/mypackage/var/log/mypackage > dh_auto_install > dh_install > cp -a debian/tmp/bin/mybin debian/mypackage/usr/bin/ > cp: cannot stat `debian/tmp/bin/mybin': No such file or directory > ----- > > It's obvious that dh_install can't find the file in debian/tmp > because dh_prep just removed the dir three steps before. That's > somehow strange, since dh_install will look for files in debian/tmp > per default. > > Do I miss something? Why does dh_prep remove a dir that dh_install > will use per default? dh_auto_install should populate debian/tmp/ for you. And this one appears after dh_prep. So your real problem is likely that dh_auto_install is not doing anything useful currently. (If your source package has a single binary package, then debian/tmp is not used, the files are directly installed in debian/<pkg>, so the above remark assumes that you have a source package with multiple binaries) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120713125426.gf7...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
