12-02-2008
Well, this is not the way I would do it, but in theory you could create a symbolic link, linking samba to the current directory and untar in that (current) directory
Not sure why you would do it, but it is possible by creating the symlink.
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dh-make-gosa
DH-MAKE-GOSA(1) Debian DH-MAKE-GOSA(1)
NAME
dh-make-gosa - Debianizes the source of a given gosa plugin
SYNOPSIS
dh-make-gosa [OPTION]... SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
dh-make-gosa takes a directory or tar ball of an existing gosa plugin and adds debian information to it. Feel free to use dpkg-buildpackage
to generate your own gosa-plugin package from source or svn and enable it in the gosa.conf(5) file to activate it.
OPTIONS
-r debian-release, --release debian-release
Set the Debian release to debian-release when generating the Debian tree. Default is the unstable release.
--dest destination-directory
Place where dh-make-gosa will place its working data while generating the source directory. Defaults to the current directory.
--section debian-section
Set the Debian section to debian-section when generating the Debian tree. Defaults to the the web section.
--depends package,package,...
Add additional dependencies to the Debian tree which did not get listed in the plugin.dsc file. This is a comma seperated list of
Debian package names.
-e mail, --email mail
Overrides the Debian packager defined inside the plugin.dsc file by the one specified by mail.
Example usage
# Check out a plugin from SVN
svn co https://oss.gonicus.de/repositories/gosa/trunk/gosa-plugins/samba /tmp/samba
# Debianize the tree
cd /tmp
dh-make-gosa --email cajus@debian.org --release etch --section web samba
# Build debian package
cd samba
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
To build everything from the subversion repository which is GOsa related, please take a look at the contributed make-gosa-package script.
AUTHOR
Cajus Pollmeier <cajus@debian.org>
BUGS
Please report any bugs, or post any suggestions, to the GOsa mailing list <gosa-devel@oss.gonicus.de> or to <https://oss.goni-
cus.de/labs/gosa>
LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
This code is part of GOsa (L<http://www.gosa-project.org>)
Copyright (C) 2003-2009 GONICUS GmbH
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
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GOsa v2.6 2008-04-07 DH-MAKE-GOSA(1)