[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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