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| author | Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> | 2011-09-24 20:32:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> | 2011-09-24 20:32:27 +0200 |
| commit | aee32cbeae3e76bab261fc02fa5e608b71360439 (patch) | |
| tree | a4d72a9313e8be58edf09d84c992d786e81f79f6 /debian/README.source | |
| parent | 0c4473041bfb4d2426b52111ab18939a015f59a4 (diff) | |
| download | mesa-aee32cbeae3e76bab261fc02fa5e608b71360439.tar.gz | |
Document the symlink dance in README.source.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/README.source b/debian/README.source index 8ff408c91f..4995b4843b 100644 --- a/debian/README.source +++ b/debian/README.source @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ just need to be pulled into git.debian.org in a "upstream-*" branch. The .orig.tar.gz is upstream's MesaLib tarball. +While building from git, dpkg-source can complain about symlinks vs. +normal files mismatches. To work around this issue, before uploading, +and without committing: + + find -type l | while read dest; do src=$(readlink -f $dest); rm $dest; cp $src $dest; done + The Debian packaging is added by creating the "debian-*" git branch which contains the aforementioned "upstream-*" branch plus the debian/ repository files. |