Re: Packages that require enormous amounts of source

[Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es>]

On 21 Oct 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:

> I hate to say it, but this is one nice thing about rpm spec files: you
> just list Source: ftp://host/path/foo.tar.gz and if foo.tar.gz is in
> the local SOURCES dir, it uses it -- and handles multiple Source:
> lines.  (It's trivial, but it's useful...)

IIRC, Klee said he was working in a new source format for dpkg, that
will accept multiple patches and/or tar files to build the Debianized 
sources. I guess he can tell us more if he can find a little time.

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Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental			Univ. de La Laguna