On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:46:29AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > That approach gets rid of a lot of hassles associated with upgrading the > > sources, and allows people to rebuild their kernel and core system. You just > > pull the new sources from CVS, and use the scripts to build debs. A lot like > > kernel-package, except that it has to handle more packages. > > I've left the CVS directories in there, so it ought to be possible for > package maintainers to deal with upgrades. On the other hand, the idea of > a user being able to upgrade stuff in-situ sounds rather cool :) I'm not > sure whether the best policy here is to stick with the existing Debian > mentality of individual packages dealt with by different maintainers or a > huge package with the user having more choice over updates as you > suggest. What does everyone else think? I think we should do it the way it's currently done in Debian for now. If we want to use CVS, we should set it up Debian-wide. I like the idea of using CVS for Debian source packages. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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