Re: orig source

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Subject: Re: orig source
From: Rainer Clasen <clasen@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:14:33 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 19980409151433.20079@trans>
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 8767kjs5ky.fsf@psyche.evansnet>; from Carey Evans on Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 09:32:45PM +1200
References: <[🔎] 199804081855.OAA23803@prime.cs.ohiou.edu> <[🔎] 8767kjs5ky.fsf@psyche.evansnet>

Hi!

Carey Evans (c.evans@clear.net.nz):
> I've gotten the impression that the best way to do it is to use
> *pristine* uptream source, which means that the .orig.tar.gz is really
> the tar file you downloaded.  The changes should all be in the
> (automatically generated) .diff.gz.

Does this also apply to tar.gz's which contain precompiled binaries? 

I'm not sure whether it was correct to delete those binaries, when I made a
local tpqic02 package (support for the dynamic QIC-02 kernel driver).


Regards
 Rainer

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