Re: Question about packages requiring slightly modified versions of programs.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:34:35PM +0100, George Marselis wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Apparently, repeat masker comes with its own version of Blast:
> http://www.repeatmasker.org/RMBlast.html
>
> they say that "RMBlast is a RepeatMasker compatible version of the
> standard NCBI BLAST suite. The primary difference between this
> distribution and the NCBI distribution is the addition of a new
> program "rmblastn" for use with RepeatMasker and RepeatModeler."
>
> so, what would be the best course of action if someone wanted to
> package this? it looks to me such a huge waste to create a new repo,
> in order to re-compile the ncbi tools, just to gain one extra
> executable.
Would you consider it possible to provide a patch for the Debian
ncbi package which enables us to build this executable?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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