On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Klee Dienes wrote: > > > Can someone tell me if the mysterious new source-package format from > > Klee also supports multiple source tarballs? I need that for the new > > vim releases.. > > I'm a bit hesitant to use the word "supports," in that I think the > format could use a bit of work before we finalize it. The short > answer, though, is "yes". It supports both multiple source tarballs > and multiple patch files, as well as some other more esoteric features > (patches from tarfiles, moving and copying files, etc.). > > I've appended an example of a control file I was using at one point to > build netatalk. I'm not entirely happy with the format just yet, but > it should at least give a feel of the sort of things that are > possible. > > -------------------------------------------- > > Package: netatalk > Section: net > Priority: optional > Version: 1.4b2-6 > Standards-Version: 2.2.0.0 > Maintainer: Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Packaging-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:19:55 -0500 > Build-Depends: gcc, make, tar > Unpack-Depends: tar, cpio, patch, gzip > Unpack-Commands: > extract "netatalk-1.4b2" from "netatalk-1.4b2.tar.gz" as "." > extract "debian" from "debian.tar.gz" as "debian" > patch with "1.4b2-a17.diff.gz" istrip "netatalk-1.4b2" ostrip > "netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a17" > patch with "lprng.diff" istrip "netatalk-1.4b2.orig" ostrip "netatalk-1.4b2" > patch with "ppr.diff" istrip "netatalk-1.4b2.orig" ostrip "netatalk-1.4b2" > patch with "shlib.diff" > patch with "makefiles.diff" reversed > patch with "filext.diff" > patch with "linux.diff" > patch with "solariseagain.diff"
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