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[DebianGIS] Re: Broken packages



blair,

this is a hacker's approach.

the debian's way is to unpack the .orig tar, go there, zcat debian-patch
| patch -p1, chmod ug+x debian/rules.

the debian/patches files are upstream patches only.

regards,

alex

Blair Zajac wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:13 PM, alex bodnaru wrote:
> 
>>
>> hi blair,
>>
>> thanks for your prompt considerations.
> 
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
>>> I'm still working on getting it to work with 1.1.1.  The configure.in
>>> and configure patches break against it, which I've got fixed, but
>>> there's some other stuff going on.
>>>
>> i know they changed upstream, and i'll take a look myself. your
>> configure* patch will be wellcome.
> 
> 
> One other thing.  I don't think it's a good idea to automatically 
> create the upstream-1.1.x.diff from the .orig tarball and the current 
> directory.  Much cleaner is to take the patch and make a static diff 
> file that applies cleanly.  This way the file is not automatically 
> updated when you do a new build.
> 
> The way it is now effectively makes the real representation the files 
> in the current directory, not the files in debian/patches/.  I think 
> it'll be much cleaner just to  have a static diff that'll apply  cleanly
> if you update to a new postgis version, which I did.  This  way, I need
> to take the upstream-1.1.0-diff, apply it to 1.1.1, see  what breaks,
> and create a new diff.
> 
> Regards,
> Blair
> 
> 



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