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.TH dpkg-lndir 8 "Release 1.0" "LLNL" "dpkg-tmplocal"
.SH NAME
dpkg-lndir \- create a shadow tree of symlinks to another directory
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dpkg-lndir
.I fromroot
.I fromdir
.I toroot
.I todir
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dpkg-lndir
is part of dpkg-scripts, a collection of utilities for building
/usr/local-based deb packages.
.LP
The
.B dpkg-lndir
program makes a shadow copy
.I todir
of a directory tree
.I fromdir,
except that the shadow is not populated with real files but
instead with symbolic links pointing at the real files in the
.I fromdir
directory tree.
.I fromdir
is rooted in
.I fromroot,
and
.I todir
is rooted in
.I toroot,
but the symbolic link targets have
.I toroot
stripped off so they will work once
.I fromdir
is installed in the real system root.
.LP
.B dpkg-lndir
is a helper for
.B dpkg-mkdeb
which uses it during the creation of default packages.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
lndir(1), dpkg-mkdeb(8)