Thanks Kumar, will do.
On 9/25/07, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:47:19AM +0200, liran tal wrote: > > I have some questions regarding the package building though which > > concerns the orig.tar.gz I think... The way I build the package is > > having in the daloradius-0.9.3/ directory the debian/ and the usr/ > > directories where the usr/ occupies in the full path of > > usr/share/daloradius my package files (the php stuff and > > everything). in debian/rules what I do is cp daloradius-0.9.3/usr to > > daloradius-0.9.3/debian/usr Is this ok? I'm asking because I think > > that having the orig.tar.gz makes dpkg-source think that it's > > suppose to copy it over to the daloradius-0.9.3/debian dir but I'm > > not entirely sure. > > Actually, the recommended way to "copy" files from your upstream > source location to the debian/<package> directory would be to use > dh_install. Even better than calling dh_install directly from rules > would be to use an "install" file in the debian/ directory which has > things of the form > > <upstream file/directory> <destination> > > For example, for the package foo, if I want to install > foo-1.2/bar/file1 to /usr/share/foo/bar file1, my install file woul > have an entry like: > > bar/file1 usr/share/foo > > Or if you want to copy the directory foo-1.2/common-files to > /usr/share/foo/common-files, you can add an entry like: > > common-files usr/share/foo > > etc. Read man dh_install for details. Also dh_installdocs, > dh_installexamples and dh_install<whatever> for more nie stuff. > > HTH. > > Kumar > -- > Kumar Appaiah, > 458, Jamuna Hostel, > Indian Institute of Technology Madras, > Chennai - 600 036 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFG+OqFSd75awtatOcRAo0ZAJ9cD/cYgG92Ph3TWhmkUhQwy+LqCACfR6cr > lDKc2DdSh/Mg2rsu2drrQ3M= > =ucvX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
