Re: kernel-linux-*, generic build process
> No, it isn't. It is NOT the upstream tarball. It's a usually-repacked
> version of the tarball, often reproducing a different directory
> structure than the upstream tarball does.
> See, not all upstream authors follow the package-version directory
> naming.
> This will lead to a different MD5 checksum -> evil as this is not
> necessary.
Ok, this is no longer correct in most cases.
It was just some thing i had heard some time ago.
But there are cases where this cannot be done, such as Xfree with the
upstream tarball split into 3 files, tar.bz2 upstream tarballs...
the drawbacks i see from the single-diff are still valid though.
Greetings,
Erich
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