Re: multi binaries packages.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:30:41AM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> while working on apus boot floppies, i had a problem with the amiga-fdisk
> packages, who uses libreadline, but i need a version of it without readline
> and ncurses for the boot floppies.
> [...]
> But both of the binaries absolutely want to go into the first packages,
> letting the second one empty. How do i tell the dpkg-build stuff to put the
> second file in the second package. Where can i find info on building multi
> binaries packages ? The packaging manual seems mute about it.
Have a look at something like the perl-5.00x debian/rules file; this
package recompiles perl several times so you'll get an idea of how to
do it. And if you use debhelper, you'll probably want to use the -p
switch (see debhelper(1)).
> Also if i want both executables to have the same name, how can i do this ?
Make the packages conflict with each other.
Julian
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