Re: Build a sort-of-systemd-dependent package on kfreebsd

[Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@gmail.com>]

On 08/11/16 15:50, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
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> Le 08/11/2016 à 15:13, Alec Leamas a écrit :
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> > Trying to understand the debhelper, dh-exec  and dh-exec-subst
> > manpages. However, I just don't get it. All these tools seems to
> > be about changing the actual location of certain files by
> > substituting various variables with corresponding values.
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> > However, my need is to actually *remove* some files from e. g.,
> > debian/install since they are not built on kfreebsd. How could I do
> > this?
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> You could you debian/install.ARCH files (see man debhelper).
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> Alternatively, if dh-exec is not enough for you (or you don't get how to
> use it), debian/install can be a shell script (or a script in whatever
> language, really) that outputs what debian/install should be if it was
> not a script:

OK, the means three ways:

   -  debian/install.ARCH
   -  Using dh-exec/dh-filter
   -  Using a general script.

One of these should certainly work. Thanks for all help!


Cheers!

--alec