Re: Debian vs. BOGUS
ke@pertron.central.de said:
> I'm just switching from the BOGUS distribution to Debian--so please
> be patient with me ;-)
OK.
> But there is one point I do not understand: why do you think is it
> necessary to repack all the original .tar.gz files and to include the
> diffs??? Why not simlpy make a distribution of all the untouched
> .tar.gz files, accompanied with the diff files (and the the binary
> tree wiht .deb files, of course)?
I wasn't sure this was the right decision, and we could have gone the other
way.
We did this to make it easier for someone to extract the package source and
rebuild the package without having to re-apply the diff file.
Also, not all .tar.gz files we download install their
files in subdirectories instead of the current directory, not all name the
subdirectory the way we like, not all use gzip to compress, etc.
The debian.rules file is the main makefile in each package source directory.
The debian.preinst and debian.postinst are not so much meta-makefiles as they
are part of the binary package installation scheme. They are only intended to
be run by "dpkg" when it installs the .deb file.
Thanks
Bruce Perens
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