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On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 10:55:01AM +0200, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> > For really large packages it might be nice if we did diff's and uploaded |
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> > to ibiblio. |
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> I'm probably dreaming here, but maybe we coud have some diff auto-generating |
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> system, which could provide a diff between any two versions, like cvs does. |
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> But that's far in the future, if it happens at all. |
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I agree here. All developers should use complete sources, and we should work |
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towards creating a more generic solution to this problem. With a bit of |
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Portage glue, a user with linux-2.4.16.tar.bz2 on his hard drive can have |
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Portage auto-download a patch, and then *create* linux-2.4.17.tar.bz2 for him. |
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If this is done correctly, the md5's will be the same and developers can always |
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use the full version of the archive rather than a patch in their ebuilds. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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