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Re: How to create a soft link with quilt



On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 19:39 +0800, liang wrote:
> Hi, All, 
> 
> When using 3.0 (quilt) format to package a debian package, I found it 
> is impossible to keep soft link with quilt, This is my procedure:
> 
> $ quilt new add-celt051-link-to-libcelt.patch
> Patch add-celt051-link-to-libcelt.patch is now on top
> $ quilt add celt051
> File celt051 added to patch add-celt051-link-to-libcelt.patch
> $ ln -s celt-0.5.1.3/libcelt celt051
> $ quilt refresh
> diff: celt051/null: No such file or directory
> Nothing in patch add-celt051-link-to-libcelt.patch
> $
> 
> libcelt is a directory under celt-0.5.1.3, I want create a symbol link
> celt051 point to it. 
> 
> How can I achieve this result?

You can't do it with a patch; you'll have to create it in debian/rules
instead.

Anyway, why are you adding celt as a patch instead of a tarball?  See
<http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#Howtousemultipleupstreamtarballin3.0.28quilt.29format.3F>

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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