On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:53:39PM +0100, D. Pathirana wrote: > Dear mentors! > > I am new in Debian Package Maintaining. I try to build some packages for > my own to get a feeling how everything works. I have read a few > docs[1][2] to find a solution for a specific problem that bugs me since > days now... > > I would have asked the pkg-ntp-maintainers list for help but Chapter 10 > of the Debian New Maintainers' Guide[3] tells me to ask here first.. I > hope it's correct and somebody can help... > > So here is my problem: > > I've been trying to figure out how the installation process of the > package "ntpdate" works. After installation the configuration file > "/etc/default/ntpdate" is created. But: I can not find any evidence of > it being used throughout the whole debian directory in the source-package. dpkg -L ntpdate |xargs grep -e /etc/default/ntpdate
Also (not so useful in this case): find /var/lib/dpkg/info |xargs grep -we etc/default/ntpdate > > Actually there IS THE file in "debian/ntpdate.default" but is never > refered in the rules file or elsewhere. > > I believe it has something to do with .default suffix but I was not able > to find any docs about what and how it is going on. So where does the > magic happen? I just realized that you weren't asking where the file is used at runtime but rather at compile time. Check dh_installinit (debhelper uses lots of these kinds of input files). Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
