Re: Use *.dsc files from opensuse to package?
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Grammostola Rosea
<rosea.grammostola@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it more easy to use *.dsc files from packages which are already in other
> distro's like Ubuntu or OpenSuse?
>
OpenSUSE uses rpms, so there is no debian/ directory. If Ubuntu has
packaged the program, it might be worthwhile to look at their source
to get a sense of the package. In most cases though, you will want to
start from scratch so you know the exact purpose of everything in the
debian/ directory.
It can be worthwhile to look at openSUSE, Gentoo, Fedora, etc.
packaging to see if there are patches upstream hasn't applied, etc.
>
> Or is it better to use just upstream source?
You should always build with pristine upstream source code. I think
you meant to ask something else here.
Daniel
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Daniel Moerner <dmoerner@gmail.com>
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