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Re: patches to vendor source trees - discussion


On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 04:21:07PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> My proposal (revised)
>    Use the standard RPM tree (SOURCES, BUILD, SPEC, RPMS, SRPMS)
>    -src is a tarball which contains
>      SOURCES/foo-VER-REL-orig.tar.bz2
>      SOURCES/foo-VER-REL.diff (creates the cgywin README)
>      SOURCES/foo-VER-REL-X.diff (if necessary)
>      SPECS/foo-VER-REL.*
>        .spec or .sh or .rule or whatever.
>    setup unpacks this into /usr/src/cygwin.
>    the end.  Nothing else is specified yet.

Your proposal has a disadvantage:  The src package isn't
compatible to the current packaging scheme.

==> All packages have to be repacked.  A clear no-no, IMO.

Corinna

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