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Re: debian/rules: create folder into deb



On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:26:30PM +0200, nidr wrote:
> Perhaps you guys have seen some of my other threads over at debian-boot.
> They are all related to tasksel, as am trying to add my own tasks for
> personally use. Am grateful for all the help I have got with tasksel so far.
> But there is still something I do not understand:
> 
> You see I've been trying to make my own deb out of the tasksel 2.24 source.
> So I've managed to build a working deb with the dpkg-buildpackage command,
> but later I found out that I needed to do some more modifications:
> When I run the dpkg-buildpackage command, the system make this folder
> ./debian/tasksel/usr/lib/tasksel/packages
> But this folder has no items inside. So I want to add my package-list item
> into this folder, so my owm packages list is there, "inside" the deb. How
> can I make so the dpkg-buildpackage will move my list program to that
> folder?
> I've tried to read some documention about debian/rules, but still I can't
> manage to do what I want to. Hope someone could help me here.
> 
debian/rules is just a Makefile.  Of you understand Makefile syntax,
that is all you need. Basically, you can place your file somewhere in
the debian/ directory.  Then after the call to dh_installdirs (I think)
you can use a simple mv command to move your file to the desired
destination.

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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