Re: uscan for a single text file

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hi Sergio,




>Oh, I have a solution!  Get rid of this proprietary software on Debian!
>;-)


lol :)
>Seriously, though.  I've also had to do a few modifications to the
>get-orig-source.sh script, and you'll also need to run uscan with the
>--no-symlink option, but this should work.  Oh, and you will also need
>to specify downloadurlmangle like this:
>
>  opts="downloadurlmangle=s@(.*)@http:$1@" \
>  http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/([\d\.\-]+)/VBoxGuestAdditions_([\d\.\-]+).iso \
>    debian /bin/sh debian/get-orig-source.sh


I did this for virtualbox
"downloadurlmangle=s/^/http:/"

does this works too? I would like to keep it simple, or understand what it is doing :)
>if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
>  echo "Error: 3 parameters are required."
>  exit 1
>fi


what is correct? 2 or 3?

thanks a lot, I'll give it a try as soon as I reach a stable enough internet connection :)

Gianfranco