Re: Which comes first - the chicken or the egg?
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:52:58 +0000
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> I seem to be between a rock and a hard place
>
> In frustration over the weekend I removed my copy kdepim directory.
> I then checked out the version tagged as the KDE_3_1_RELEASE and it
> did not have an admin directory (required by debian/rules when
> building via dpkg-buildpackage).
>
> Nevermind I thought, I will download kde-common and symlink to its
> admin directory as per instructions. This I did
>
> Running dpkg-buildpackage - one of the first things it does is run a
> script called cvs.sh. This has some magic in it that clears away all
> files that did not come from cvs INCLUDING THE SYMLINKED admin
> directory.
The following seems to work:
debuild -b -uc -us -nc
I'm too lazy to reread the man page but I suppose -nc means"no clean".
Do this immediately after you copy[1] ./admin into the build root.
[1]My golden rule of safe building: Don't symlink what you can copy.
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