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Re: dpkg issues

On 23 Feb 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:

> 
> > from experience, I can say that the usefulness of a Debian system
> > goes up by ***orders of magnitude*** when one finally has the
> > freedom (or at least the feeling) that he/she can produce packages
> 
> Does anyone remember the BOGUS release? It was a linux release that
> shipped diff-script files that included enough info to fetch the
> original sources, patch, build, install... it never got critical mass
> and the developers all died (err, I mean, they graduated and vanished :-)
> 
> However, they had *accomplished* the goal of being able to suck down a
> set of files and a tool, and then with basically one command, build a
> *complete* release with no intervention.
> 
> I'm planning to try this with debian -- I just got myself a couple of
> big hard disks :-)  Does anyone else find this an interesting "added
> value feature" that would make debian more interesting? I'll report
> back in the next few weeks on how hard it actually is...
> 								_Mark_

You might want to start with the CVS tree that we started talking about a
while ago, also take a look on how FreeBSD packages  are beeing build.
They only store the install and deinstall scripts, the diffs and scripts
to download and compile the original source.

Mike

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