Re: Binary Changes Drill
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 01:44:46AM -0600, Paul Serice wrote:
> What's the drill whenever I have "binary changes" to the upstream
> tarball? I ask because there are some chess images (gif format)
> that make for a nice html-based cmoputer annotation of games
> that aren't distributed with the main Crafty source.
>
> Right now, I've just copied the images into "debian" and would
> like to just copy them to their final resting place in "rules".
>
> dpkg-buildpackage does not like this scheme. Please, what are
> my options?
uuencode (or tar.gz them and then uuencode the .tar.gz) the binary
files before creating the package. Then uudecode them in the rules
file.
Julian
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