Let me start by saying that i am not in any way attached to this specific amendment to policy. What i would like is to be able to cause the files that are normally placed in the parent directory while building a package to be placed instead in some other directory. An environment variable would be nice because i could set it once and never worry about it again, but i don't really care how this ends up being done. I've attached a diff to policy.sgml in CVS. It requires a change in how binary and source packages are built. dpkg already supports the change, but dpkg-source will need to be modified. It doesn't support a build directory at the moment. I describe the '-o' option in this patch, but i am not attached to that particular one. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> epg@progeny.com Software Developer Progeny Linux Systems - http://progeny.com
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