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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:13:59
Message-Id: 20100627110858.GF23460@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages by Ciaran McCreesh
1 * Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> schrieb:
2
3 > > Well, at least for tar, I've experienced no problem here yet.
4 > > But: true, it might change between tar versions.
5 >
6 > The main offender is the compression program, not tar.
7
8 hmm, I'm exclusively using bzip2 and never had these problems
9 yet. maybe it depends on the compressor type.
10
11 > > A more sophisticated approach, IMHO, would be: directly fetching
12 > > from the VCS
13 >
14 > Yes, upstreams are going to love you for that...
15
16 Why ? Because of traffic ? Of course, distros should work
17 from their own clones (yes, yes, I'm assuming modern VCS'es,
18 not toys like svn ;-p)
19
20
21 cu
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24 Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
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26 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
27 http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
28 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
29 http://patches.metux.de/
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>