Re: 1.2 source archive and packaging issues

[Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>]

branderh@debian.IAEhv.nl writes:

> Makes a lot of sense to me, can you hack install to do such a thing?

You mean actually modify the source for /usr/bin/install itself so we
have a new install that's Debian specific, I'd be really nervous about
that.  But if you mean either writing a substitute program that could
be used when building packages, no problem.  In fact I'd probably just
write a wrapper (perl) script that looks at the args, handles the mode
and owner flags itself (as mentioned earlier), and then calls the
normal install for the rest of the job (stripping, copying, etc).

Should be pretty easy.

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Rob