Re: [RFC] Package build time config for installation directories.
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:16:38AM -0500, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> > +include /etc/dpkg-dev/dirs.$(DEBIAN_GNU_HOST_TYPE)
> >
> > - ./configure
> > + ./configure --sbindir=$(sbindir) --bindir=$(bindir) --etcdir=$(etcdir)
>
> The proposal makes perfect sense, I just have one concern: I see that
> dpkg-buildpackage takes an architecture flag, but I don't think
> there's a way to specify a "system type" (i386-hurd, for example). If
> I want to put stuff in /usr/local, should I do i386-linuxlocal, and
> how? I think it would be nice to:
>
> dpkg-buildpackage --system-type i386-linuxlocal
>
> (or something). And, if that's the case, probably the system type
> should be part of the deb (the Architecture field)?
Maybe create an env var that this dpkg-dirs script will use to override
the default file?
DEBIAN_DIR_FORMAT=i386-linuxlocal dpkg-buildpackage
then create and edit /etc/dpkg-dev/dirs.i386-linuxlocal
Makes sense?
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