Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Retrieval of source from archives is usually done "by hand" but any such > bulk retrieval should be easy to manage with a script. I take the lack of > a script to indicate the current relative lack of need. Anyone is welcome > to prove me wrong by writing such a script ;-)
Actually there is such a script and it is indeed trivial, nothing more than a couple of lines of shell script. Lars Wirzenius's excellent dbuild does it (among other things): <URL:http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/debian/index.html> Not really wanting to get involved in this discussion, but since I'm here anyway... I've seen some scary references to people wanting RPM-style single tar balls for source. Umm, please, good God, no. That would suck most hard, and I and any of the people who maintain multi-megabyte source packages (I'm thinking, X, *Emacs*, gcc, binutils etc.) over a 28.8 would scream bloody murder. Please think very hard about the benefits of our current system before advocating a replacement for it. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]