Re: Decision on leaving upstream tar files untouched?
On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I would like to see dpkg-source take an argument list like this:
>
> dpkg-source -b a.tar.gz b.tar.gz c.diff.gz package-name-a.b.c.debian/
>
> This would create a directory under /var/tmp and extract a.tar.gz and
> b.tar.gz and apply c.diff.gz in that directory. It would then diff the
> result with the files in package-name-a.b.c.debian/, and generate
> another diff.gz from that. It would then build a .dsc file for all of
> the .tar.gz and .diff.gz files.
Agreed. Just one important point however: I don't think extracting
into /var/tmp is wise since /var is often a small partition, and some source
packages are huge. Why not do this is the current directory (as it seems
to be already the case) ?
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