Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> writes:
> Gergely Nagy wrote:
>> At the moment, I have something that works like this:
>>
>> ,----
>> | #! /usr/bin/dh-exec-install
>> | # The next one will simply echo it back to dh_install
>> | source-file /dest-dir/
>> |
>> | # This one will copy the file itself, following similar heuristics as
>> | # dh_install: it will first try the source file directly, and if it's
>> | # not found, try the same path under debian/tmp/. The destination is
>> | # relative to debian/${PACKAGE} (as per dh compat level 7+)
>> | #
>> | # Since dh-exec-install does the copying itself, this line is NOT
>> | # echoed back to dh_install.
>> | source-file /dest-dir/new-name
>> `----
>
> Of course the reason I didn't add this to dh_install 10 years ago is
> that this syntax sucks. It's really horrible; either the trailing slashes
> are much more significant than makes sense, or what it does depends on
> the state of the filesystem(ie, checking whether /dest-dir/new-name is
> a directory).
Mhm, fair enough. I'll scratch that for now then, and try to figure out
something else.
>> My implementation copies the file to the desired destination, which may
>> or may not be a good idea - I'll do some more tests to see which one's
>> less painful and more safe.
>
> That breaks -X, --fail-missing, --list-missing, --sourcedir, and --tmpdir
Ow. That's not good. Thanks for pointing these out!
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