directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile that installs
everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that up into subpackages.
-Files named debian/package.files list the files to be moved, separated by
-whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can
-also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved. If you
-prefer, you can list the files to move on the command line and this will
-apply to the first package dh_movefiles is told to act on.
+Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use
+it instead of dh_movefiles.
-Note: dh_install is a much better program that can do everything this one can,
-and more.
+=head1 FILES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item debian/I<package>.files
+
+Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The
+filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list
+directory names, and the whole directory will be moved.
+
+=back
=head1 OPTIONS
Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes
it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire contents of
-the sourcedir is moved, specifiying something like --sourcedir=/ is very
+the sourcedir is moved, specifying something like --sourcedir=/ is very
unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir must be a relative filename;
it cannot begin with a `/'.
=cut
-init();
+init(options => {
+ "sourcedir=s" => \$dh{SOURCEDIR},
+});
my $ret=0;
$ret=1;
warning("$file not found (supposed to put it in $package)");
}
- $file=~s:^\Q$sourcedir\E/+::;
- my $cmd="(cd $sourcedir >/dev/null ; find $file ! -type d ";
- if ($dh{EXCLUDE_FIND}) {
- $cmd.="-a ! \\( $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} \\) ";
+ else {
+ $file=~s:^\Q$sourcedir\E/+::;
+ my $cmd="(cd $sourcedir >/dev/null ; find $file ! -type d ";
+ if ($dh{EXCLUDE_FIND}) {
+ $cmd.="-a ! \\( $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} \\) ";
+ }
+ $cmd.="-print || true) >> debian/movelist";
+ complex_doit($cmd);
}
- $cmd.="-print || true) >> debian/movelist";
- complex_doit($cmd);
}
my $pwd=`pwd`;
chomp $pwd;
- complex_doit("(cd $sourcedir >/dev/null ; tar --create --remove-files --files-from=$pwd/debian/movelist --file -) | (cd $tmp >/dev/null ;tar xpf -)");
+ complex_doit("(cd $sourcedir >/dev/null ; tar --create --files-from=$pwd/debian/movelist --file -) | (cd $tmp >/dev/null ;tar xpf -)");
+ # --remove-files is not used above because tar then doesn't
+ # preserve hard links
+ complex_doit("(cd $sourcedir >/dev/null ; tr '\\n' '\\0' < $pwd/debian/movelist | xargs -0 -i rm -f '{}')");
doit("rm","-f","debian/movelist");
}
}
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<debhelper(1)>
+L<debhelper(7)>
This program is a part of debhelper.