Think this has gotten beyond the scope of the activities mailing list so followup on slug@slug.org.au thanks.
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: > ><quote who="Nick Urbanik"> > > > >> I know very little about the practicalities of deb packaging, except I've > >> heard a rumor that debs require all the patches to be rolled into one > >> single patch (true or urban myth? How do you cope?). > > > >There's a single diff.gz at the end, but most sane packagers ship separate > >patches as part of that diff.gz. Example: > > No, sane packagers use revision control. Insane packagers includes the set > of people who use patches in the diff as well as those who only use a single > diff. In an ideal world where the author of the software also maintains the .deb and .rpm packages yes I agree totally. But what do you do if you're patches aren't (for any of many reasons) integrated into the upstream package or even into a branch of that package in the main repository? It's a bit of overkill to create your own repository and a local branch just to change a default path from /home/httpd to /var/www for example. I may be prepared to eat my words when the source packages come with a code repository. IE in RPM language... rpm -Uvh blah.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/blah.arch vi configure-in tla commit cd ../../SPECS rpmbuild -ba blah.spec -- ---<GRiP>--- Grant Parnell - SLUG President EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.elx.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and everythinglinux.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs or email us at paidsupport at elx.com.au ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
