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Re: dpkg-buildpackage problem



Hi there

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:45, Jay Graves wrote:
> Hello
> I am trying to package a program that installs some data files in to
> /etc/X11/packageName
> 
> However when I run the dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot the process fails
> when it actually tries to install the files to /etc/X11/packageName
> 
> Shouldn't install the files to debian/packageName/etc/X11/packageName ?
> 
> I am not sure what other info may help.  The Makefile specifies 
> datadir = /etc/X11

It's possible that the Makefile doesn't support DESTDIR, or that you're
not using it right.
debian/rules should have something like this:
make install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp

Hope I was of any help =]

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