Re: How to create multi-source tarball with different submodules for scipy
On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 at 16:06, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried to create a multi-source tarball for scipy in its experimental
> branch[1]. Upstream includes a set of git submodules in its build
> process. I intended to merge all these submodules in a single
> scipy_1.10.0.orig-submodules.tar.gz. This tarball is created with a
> script[2] which makes sure that the exact directory structure as it is
> used by upstream is conserved. This directory layout is needed in the
> build process. Unfortunately `dpkg-source -x` extracts the content of
> the submodules tarball into a subdirectory submodules/.
>
> Is there any trick to unpack this tarball right into the root?
> Otherwise I need to do some symlinks workaround in d/rules to provide
> all files where these are needed.
When I packaged firmware-microbit-microbit I wasn't aware of any
tricks, so I resorted to overriding dh_auto_build to move the
extracted components into their expected paths before building:
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/firmware-microbit-micropython/-/blob/debian/master/debian/rules
Not sure if this useful, but I thought I'd pass it along in case it helps.
Cheers,
Nick
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