On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:13:39PM +0000, Chris Rutter wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > As Antti-Juhani says, use lowercase. It doesn't matter what directory > > the .orig.tar.gz unpacks to; dpkg-source will cope. Don't extract it, > > rename it, and recreate the .orig.tar.gz just to fix the directory name; > > it's better to use "pristine source" -- meaning the exact .tar.gz > > provided by the upstream author (renamed of course to .orig.tar.gz). > > I'm probably being thick, but I don't see how to do this -- if I re- > created the .orig.tar.gz file with lowercase names instead, then I > wouldn't be using the pristine source, would I?
Exactly. That's what I mean -- don't recreate it :-) > Is there some incantation to dpkg-buildpackage to tell it what the > name of the original source directory is (i.e. not `mlib-1.6.1.orig' > but `mLib-1.6.1.orig')? dpkg-source (called by dpkg-buildpackage) will work it out for itself. Don't worry about it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
