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
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