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Re: source packages and upstream source

phil@hands.com (Philip Hands)  wrote on 01.03.97 in <199703010320.DAA12570@palm.hands.com>:

> > I absolutely agree with you that the process of automating the
> > downloading and unpacking of upstream sources is an impossible dream.
>
> I'm not so sure.
>
> If this is supposed to be impossible because we don't know what the internal
> structure of the upstream tar is going to be, then there are only really two
> cases we need to handle.

Of course, but that's not the problem here.

What, for example, would that target do for my doc-iana package?

I get the files for that from my local IANA mirror.

Nobody is really interested in a target that copies files around from some  
paths only relevant on my system.

And I'm not interested in a target that gets them from anywhere else; I  
already have them, after all.

And adding my whole mirror setup would just be ridiculous.


Or what if someone got the sources from a CD?


Lots of other scenarios are possible.

> Or have I missing the point ?

I think so, yes.


MfG Kai