Re: Package modifying its own control at build?
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:10:25PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings! Can a package be structured to build a variable number of
> subarchitecture-specific binary packages depending on the architecture
> running the compilation? Perhaps control.i386, control.alpha, etc?
You should only have one control file, and use the Architecture field.
Generating the control file it build time is considered bad, because
then the .dsc does not contain all the binary package names that it
builds, and this can do bad things in the archive.
Ben
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