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Re: dpkg issues

On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Mike Neuffer wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 	In our case, just having the .dsc files should be enough (plus the 
> location of the nearest mirror of course).
> 
> 	BTW, do we have a 'Packages.gz' file, but with source package 
> descriptions instead of binary packages? 

If I got it right that means the we only store the diff.gz file in CVS
plus the info where to get the upstream sources.

But I see a few problems here:

* Some FTP sites are not maintained very good and files are sometimes
moved around.

* What if the upstream sources get deleted (i.e. there is a new version)
but we still ship the old version with Debian?

* What if the upstream source can't be used as .orig.tar.gz directly? For
example, when the tar file doesn't include a sub-directory foo-0.1/ ?

* Some upstream sources are not a single .tar.gz file, but perhaps a
tar.gz for an old version plus a diff. 


Or did I miss something?


Thanks,

Chris

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