* Will Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 28 July 2001 2:33 am, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Why not make the change in debian/rules rather than in the package's > > Makefile? > > > > > > install -d debian/tmp > > $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(PWD)/debian/tmp > > > > Should do the trick. > > This way I have to manually create all dirs under debian/tmp (usr, usr/bin. > usr/lib etc.). That seems like the very thing the dh_installdirs helper is > meant to do, but it only creates the debian/<package-name> dirs. Is the guide > wrong? Should I be doing this some other way?
>From what I can gather from the debhelper manpage, debian/tmp is depricated (only used if DH_COMPAT is set to 1). I just install everything straight to debian/<package>, since that's where it ends up anyway. If your source package creates more than one binary package and the upstream Makefile installs everything at once, then debian/tmp and dh_movefiles are useful. But otherwise debian/<package> is easiest. Joshua -- Joshua Haberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
