Re: Switching to dbs, upload repacked orig.tar.gz?
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:17:33PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> I'd like to use dbs for a package (newsx), the problem is that afaik
> this requires to change the orig.tar.gz (from real original tar-ball
> to one containing package-version/original_tarball), is there a clean
> way (or commonly used trick) to upload it (except waiting for a new
> upstream release)?
>
> I thought I'd introduce an artificilial new upstream-version
> (1.4pl6.0), are there better alternatives?
You have to change the upstream version when changing the .orig.tar.gz
in order for the archive maintenance software to install it - there's no
way around that.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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