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authorjoey <joey>2001-02-09 23:30:08 +0000
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-.TH DH_LINK 1 "" "Debhelper Commands" "Debhelper Commands"
-.SH NAME
-dh_link \- create symlinks in package build directories
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B dh_link
-.I "[debhelper options] [-A] [source destination ...]"
-.SH "DESCRIPTION"
-dh_link is a debhelper program that creates symlinks in package build
-directories.
-.P
-dh_link accepts a list of pairs of source and destination files. The source
-files are the already existing files that will be symlinked from. The
-destination files are the symlinks that will be created. There
-.B must
-be an equal number of source and destination files specified.
-.P
-The list can be specified in two ways. A file named debian/package.links
-can list pairs of files. If you use this file, you should put each pair
-of files on its own line, and separate the files within the pair with
-whitespace. Also, pairs of files can be specified as parameters - these
-pairs will only be created in the package build directory of the first
-package dh_link is told to act on. By default, this is the first binary
-package in debian/control, but if you use -p, -i, or -a flags, it will be
-the first package specified by those flags.
-.P
-Be sure you
-.B do
-specify the full filename to both the source and destination files (unlike
-you would do if you were using something like
-.BR ln (1)
-).
-.P
-dh_link will generate symlinks that comply with debian policy - absolute
-when policy says they should be absolute, and relative links with as short a
-path as possible. It will also create any subdirectories it needs to to put
-the symlinks in.
-.SH OPTIONS
-.TP
-.B debhelper options
-See
-.BR debhelper (1)
-for a list of options common to all debhelper commands.
-.TP
-.B \-A, \--all
-Create any links specified by command line parameters in ALL packages
-acted on, not just the first.
-.TP
-.B source destination ...
-Create a file named "destination" as a link to a file named "source". Do
-this in the package build directory of the first package acted on.
-(Or in all packages if -A is specified.)
-.SH EXAMPLES
- dh_link usr/share/man/man1/foo.1 usr/share/man/man1/bar.1
-.P
-Make bar.1 be a symlink to foo.1
-.P
- dh_link var/lib/foo usr/lib/foo \\
- usr/X11R6/man/man1/foo.1x usr/share/man/man1/bar.1
-.P
-Make /usr/lib/foo/ be a link to /var/lib/foo/, and bar.1 be a symlink to the
-X man page foo.1x
-.SH ENVIRONMENT
-See
-.BR debhelper (1)
-for a list of environment variables that affect all debhelper commands.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR debhelper (1)
-.SH BUGS
-It's impossible to specify filenames with spaces or other whitespace in them
-in debian/package.links files. This is more a historical design flaw than a
-bug.
-.SH "CONFORMS TO"
-Debian policy, version 3.0.1
-.SH AUTHOR
-Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>