On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:05:52PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
>
> I posted earlier, but I believe my ISP is having mail server problems...
>
> I maintain pgp4pine, and The upstream maintainer has changed the path
> within the .tar.gz file,
>
> from: pgp4pine/
> to: home/user/progs/pgp4pine/temp/
>
> how do I compensate for this?
>
> He has just moved to rcs for control, I have no experience with it, is
> this an offshot of that? Is it likely to be permanent?
Compensate before or after you shoot him for doing something so completely
stupid? =p
Ignore RCS, it just includes a bunch of ,v files in the distribution which
you don't need, ignore it.
Coping with the problem can be done two ways, which one depends on a few
things..
1. Unpack and repact the tarball. dirty but sometimes cleaner than
anything else you can do...
2. if there's a $(MAKE) involved, just add "-C user/progs/pgp4pine/temp"
if it's just copying files, well, do the same. note that the home/ is
gone since that's the dir your debian dir goes into. there's no
requirement that you rename this to pgp4pine-version, but you probably
should just to save your sanity. it's not required by dpkg-srouce though
and you won't have to change this in the tarball.
In the case of quake (which requires I unpack an rpm anyway) it's easier
to just junk the paths to make the rules file cleaner. Otherwise I'd say
if it's not too painful to make debian/rules deal with it, pristine source
should probably win out over a little frustration.
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
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<Knghtbrd> mariab - I am a Debian developer. Red Hat is "the enemy" or
something like that I guess.. Still, typecasting RH users as
idiots or their distribution as completely broken by default
is complete and total FUD.
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