[GRASS5] debian control

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Wed Oct 5 02:34:59 EDT 2005


On Wed, October 5, 2005 08:15, Hamish wrote:
>> - update from cvs the usual way
>
> make sure that is:  cvs update -dP
>
>> - su
>
> you cannot build a package as a regular user?
>
>> The only problems I find are:
>> - during cvs update some files are conflicting (as a result of previous
>> compilations); it seems necessary to delete them for a successful
>> compilation
>
> did you run  'make distclean'  first?


In my experience this is the culprit: when you run 'make distclean' this does
not erase the specific debian files and patches. This is why 'debian/control
clean' seems a better solution. But I'm no expert...

Moritz





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