customdeb(1) [debian man page]
CUSTOMDEB(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation CUSTOMDEB(1) NAME
customdeb - Customizes a binary debian package SYNOPSIS
customdeb file.cdeb [package.deb] Applies the changed specified in the file file.cdeb to the package file specified on the command line. If no package file was passed, it downloads the latest package with dget. DESCRIPTION
DIRECTORIES The created package will be saved in the output/ subdirectory of the current directory. A dlcache/ directory will be created as well, to prevent repeated downloads of the same file. It can, however, be deleted without problems. FILE FORMAT The cdeb file should be in a RFC822-like format, commonly used in Debian for almost everything: Field names and values are separated by a colon (":"). Lines starting with a blank are just appended to their previous line's value. Lines that contain only a period (".") in them will become an empty line in the output. Empty lines are ignored. Comments are allowed - All characters after a # sign until the end of the line are ignored. If you need to include the # sign, prepend it with another #. Also see Parse::DebControl. The first stanza of the file specifies general information on the package and the changes. This is followed by any number of change stan- zas, described as below. The changes are applied in the order of their appearance in the cdeb file. HEADER FIELDS Package The name of the package to modify. (required) Mod-Version String to append to the version of the package. Default: 0 Changes String to be inserted into the Debian changelog of the created package. Default: "This is a customized package, created using customdeb." TODO: Multi line arguments are not handled nicely yet. Files: String that specifies a directory to copy files from into the package (maybe overwriting files there). This happens before any of modi- fication stanzas are executed. Default: None FILE STANZA FIELDS This describes changes to a file in the package. File The full path of the file to modify or add. (required) Content Write the (probably-multi-line) value of the field to the file. Permission The file permission to set, in octal format. Owner The user and group to set, separated by a space. SEE ALSO
You can find example files for customdeb in /usr/share/doc/customdeb/examples/. AUTHOR
Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> perl v5.8.8 2008-01-27 CUSTOMDEB(1)
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DH_INSTALLDOCS(1) Debhelper DH_INSTALLDOCS(1) NAME
dh_installdocs - install documentation into package build directories SYNOPSIS
dh_installdocs [debhelperoptions] [-A] [-Xitem] [file...] DESCRIPTION
dh_installdocs is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing documentation into usr/share/doc/package in package build directories. FILES
debian/package.docs List documentation files to be installed into package. debian/copyright The copyright file is installed into all packages, unless a more specific copyright file is available. debian/package.copyright debian/package.README.Debian debian/package.TODO Each of these files is automatically installed if present for a package. debian/README.Debian debian/TODO These files are installed into the first binary package listed in debian/control. Note that README.debian files are also installed as README.Debian, and TODO files will be installed as TODO.Debian in non-native packages. debian/package.doc-base Installed as doc-base control files. Note that the doc-id will be determined from the Document: entry in the doc-base control file in question. debian/package.doc-base.* If your package needs to register more than one document, you need multiple doc-base files, and can name them like this. OPTIONS
-A, --all Install all files specified by command line parameters in ALL packages acted on. -Xitem, --exclude=item Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed. Note that this includes doc-base files. --link-doc=package Make the documentation directory of all packages acted on be a symlink to the documentation directory of package. This has no effect when acting on package itself, or if the documentation directory to be created already exists when dh_installdocs is run. To comply with policy, package must be a binary package that comes from the same source package. debhelper will try to avoid installing files into linked documentation directories that would cause conflicts with the linked package. The -A option will have no effect on packages with linked documentation directories, and copyright, changelog, README.Debian, and TODO files will not be installed. (An older method to accomplish the same thing, which is still supported, is to make the documentation directory of a package be a dangling symlink, before calling dh_installdocs.) file ... Install these files as documentation into the first package acted on. (Or in all packages if -A is specified). EXAMPLES
This is an example of a debian/package.docs file: README TODO debian/notes-for-maintainers.txt docs/manual.txt docs/manual.pdf docs/manual-html/ NOTES
Note that dh_installdocs will happily copy entire directory hierarchies if you ask it to (similar to cp -a). If it is asked to install a directory, it will install the complete contents of the directory. Note that this command is not idempotent. dh_prep(1) should be called between invocations of this command. Otherwise, it may cause multiple instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts. SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 9.20120909 2011-09-12 DH_INSTALLDOCS(1)