Edit/Change Locations in Twisted .Deb?

From: Jared Warren (warren_at_cs.queensu.ca)
Date: 05/17/04

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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 03:29:45 -0400

    I'm playing around with installing an application* whose `make install` is
    unfinished and therefore it dumps the app's files in meaningless locations.
    It's not just that I neglected to specify a prefix to configure, the files
    will have to be placed individually. When I first tried installing the app, I
    used checkinstall to generate a package, which of course installs to the
    bogus locations.

    So what I'm wondering: is it possible to edit the file locations in an
    existing package, redirect file locations during package installation, create
    an equivs-like package that tracks files (not just metadata), or quickly
    throw together a package that just puts files in various locations?

    I'd prefer somehow using the existing, twisted package rather than trying to
    fix `make install` (mostly because I don't really know what I'm doing) and I
    want the app's files to be tracked by dpkg for the usual reasons. I'd
    appreciate advice on the least-painful way to accomplish this goal?

    Thank you,
    ~ Jared Warren <warren@cs.queensu.ca>

    * <http://berk.upnet.ru/projects/kde/akregator/> in case you were wondering. 

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