On upstream source tarballs and dpkg-source

2009-05-16 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 12 2009, LI Daobing wrote: and you need not (or should not) repack the upstream tarball if the upstream tarball is already in .tar.gz format. rename or make a soft link is enough. There's no need to use a symlink. dpkg-source is smart enough to understand a lot of odd-ball tarballs.

Re: On upstream source tarballs and dpkg-source

2009-05-16 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, 2009/5/17 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: On May 12 2009, LI Daobing wrote: and you need not (or should not) repack the upstream tarball if the upstream tarball is already in .tar.gz format. rename or make a soft link is enough. There's no need to use a symlink. dpkg-source is smart

Re: On upstream source tarballs and dpkg-source

2009-05-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, LI. On May 17 2009, LI Daobing wrote: 1. download foo-1.2.3.tar.gz 2. run ln -s foo-1.2.3.tar.gz foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz, so debuild can recognize that you already have a orig tarball Yes, I understood that. I just replied to comment that dpkg-source is more general than that, working with

Re: On upstream source tarballs and dpkg-source

2009-05-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:07:31AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Hi, LI. On May 17 2009, LI Daobing wrote: 1. download foo-1.2.3.tar.gz 2. run ln -s foo-1.2.3.tar.gz foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz, so debuild can recognize that you already have a orig tarball Yes, I understood that. I just

Re: On upstream source tarballs and dpkg-source

2009-05-16 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 17 2009, Matthew Palmer wrote: I also think you need to have an urgent and invasive emoticondectomy. I do have psychiatric problems. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: