Re: orig source

[fpolacco@icenet.fi]

On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 03:14:33PM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote:
> 
> 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).

use the pristine tarball if it untar under a single subdirectory, just rename
it as orig.tar.gz
Delete the binaries in the "clean:" target of the rules file, so they won't
appear in the diff file:

e.g., I see in the output building man-db:

dpkg-source: building man-db using existing man-db_2.3.10.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: building man-db in man-db_2.3.10-64.diff.gz
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory gencat
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file gencat/README
...
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file tools/mkcatdirs
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file configure
dpkg-source: building man-db using existing man-db_2.3.10.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: building man-db in man-db_2.3.10-64.diff.gz
dpkg-source: building man-db in man-db_2.3.10-64.dsc

removed files, binary or ascii, will be ignored from diff, so you don't have
to modify the original tarball and you can proudly tell:

	The original source, by Sleepycat Software Inc.,
	7d13cbcc3912d6e5b2b953063ade4894  1615957 db-2.3.16.tar.gz
	was downloaded from ftp://ftp.sleepycat.com/pub/
	and renamed using  mv db-2.3.16.tar.gz db_2.3.16.orig.tar.gz 

as I like to do in my "copyright" files.

Now that dpkg can handle pristine sources, I think it's better to use them
everywhere it is possible, showing all our work in the diff file.


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