NAME¶
dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages
SYNOPSIS¶
dh_movefiles [
debhelper options]
[
--sourcedir=dir] [
-Xitem]
[
file ...]
DESCRIPTION¶
dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving files
out of
debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package build
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.
Note:
dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use
it instead of
dh_movefiles.
FILES¶
- debian/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.
OPTIONS¶
- --sourcedir=dir
- 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, specifying something like
--sourcedir=/ is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir
must be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a ` /'.
- -Xitem, --exclude=item
- Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from
being installed.
- file ...
- Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to
debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole
directory will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless you use
-p, -i, or -a to tell dh_movefiles which
subpackage to put them in.
NOTES¶
Note that files are always moved out of
debian/tmp by default (even if
you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher than one,
which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The idea behind
this is that the package that is being built can be told to install into
debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by
dh_movefiles from
that directory. Any files or directories that remain are ignored, and get
deleted by
dh_clean later.
SEE ALSO¶
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR¶
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>