Re: partial patches - server application
* Andreas Metzler (ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org) [050106 11:10]:
> On 2005-01-06 Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > deb http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian sid main contrib non-free
> > (or any other combination of suites and components you like)
>
> > However, there are only the dist files on that place, _no_ downloadable
> > pool is available there.
>
> > The partial files are included in a subdirectory called diff in each
> > "low-level" directory like unstable/main/source, and have an Index-file
> > pointing to the other files, and one or more (at maximum 14) patches.
> > Such an Index-File looks like:
> [...]
>
> Hello,
> This looks extremely promising, thank you.
>
> Is there actually a good[1] reason for keeping the patches both as
> plain and gzipped?
The good reason is that it was easier to test with them by hand, and I
was too lazy to remove them before now - they are gone now, and tiffani
is changed to not produce them any more.
Cheers,
Andi
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