> > directory looking for these files (using a 'find' subprocess) you'd have > > to hack dkpg to omit directories named .resource or .finderinfo. > > When I tried that a couple of years ago I gave up due to generic > > dpkg build problems. Should not be too difficult with recent dpkg > > actually. > > ok, thanx. um, how would u hack dpkg? it's my 4th day on debian. i'm used to
apt-get source dpkg, unpack using dpkg-source -x dpkg_some.ver.dsc, cd dpkg-some_ver, edit whatever file the find command is in, dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc. Correct compile errors. Repeat until package has been generated. Michael