Felipe Sateler <[email protected]> writes: > On 12/08/10 16:21, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Tanguy Ortolo <[email protected]> writes: >>> Ian Jackson wrote:
>>>>> I'd much rather you could just write in your .dsc a set of glob >>>>> patterns for files to remove, somehow, which dpkg-source would >>>>> remove when you unpacked it (unless you told it not to). >>> Well, I see no .dsc field that would allow such a thing. dpkg-source >>> has the options to ignore files when building a source package, but >>> this is the closest match I found, but I have only used it for a >>> couple of months, not developped it. :-) >> I think Ian was saying that he'd like dpkg-source to add that feature, >> not that it already existsed today and was something you could use. > CDBS currently has get-orig-source rule which does that. You just define > a variable with a space separated list of globs and it excludes them > when fetching the source from the web. I believe that's implemented by repacking the upstream source to omit those files from the *.orig.tar.gz, which is exactly what Ian doesn't want people to have to do. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
