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Re: building binary-only package with different name?



On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:56:29PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> If you're just going to put these on the webpage, why would you even need
> the .changes file? (And the .dsc is only for the source package, so you
> don't need that for the potato build either)
> 
> I'd put the potato and woody build in different directories, then I
> wouldn't need to rename, but if you don't want to, I don't see why you
> can't rename the potato build and drop the .changes file.

That's certainly a valid question. In fact, I lied :-) I don't want
to put them just on the web page, I also want to keep them (both) in
my local tree of packages and be able to install and de-install them at
will with dpkg or apt. That's the real reason I want to have different names.

Peter
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