Hello mentors.
I've been thinking about an autoconf test I have for checking that my package
is being created on a Debian system. The reason is that I have a very small
set of diffs that I want applied to the package only for Debian, and hope
at some stage to feed these diffs upstream (things like file paths, etc).
My test I have now is:
> AC_MSG_CHECKING(for Debian)
> if test -f /etc/debian_version ; then
> AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
> INSTALL="/usr/bin/install"
> AC_SUBST(INSTALL)
> DEBIAN="yes"
> AC_SUBST(DEBIAN)
> else
> AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
...and all other changes in scripts are based on "#ifdef DEBIAN". Is using
/etc/debian_version the right thing to do, or is there a better/more accurate
way to determine this? Existence of /usr/bin/dpkg? Existence of /var/lib/dpkg?
Thanks,
James
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