On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 05:35:50PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > 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 > ... or, while you're using debhelper, use dh_install - although you won't gain any flexibility compared with a manual mv/cp. Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz <jckn At gmx net>
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