On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:05:52PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > I posted earlier, but I believe my ISP is having mail server problems... > > I maintain pgp4pine, and The upstream maintainer has changed the path > within the .tar.gz file, > > from: pgp4pine/ > to: home/user/progs/pgp4pine/temp/ > > how do I compensate for this? > > He has just moved to rcs for control, I have no experience with it, is > this an offshot of that? Is it likely to be permanent? Compensate before or after you shoot him for doing something so completely stupid? =p Ignore RCS, it just includes a bunch of ,v files in the distribution which you don't need, ignore it. Coping with the problem can be done two ways, which one depends on a few things.. 1. Unpack and repact the tarball. dirty but sometimes cleaner than anything else you can do... 2. if there's a $(MAKE) involved, just add "-C user/progs/pgp4pine/temp" if it's just copying files, well, do the same. note that the home/ is gone since that's the dir your debian dir goes into. there's no requirement that you rename this to pgp4pine-version, but you probably should just to save your sanity. it's not required by dpkg-srouce though and you won't have to change this in the tarball. In the case of quake (which requires I unpack an rpm anyway) it's easier to just junk the paths to make the rules file cleaner. Otherwise I'd say if it's not too painful to make debian/rules deal with it, pristine source should probably win out over a little frustration. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Knghtbrd> mariab - I am a Debian developer. Red Hat is "the enemy" or something like that I guess.. Still, typecasting RH users as idiots or their distribution as completely broken by default is complete and total FUD.
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