Re: Debian source tree and incremental diffs question..
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote:
> > Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> said:
> > That said, you are referring to the new source package format, which has
> > many nice features, most notably the one you referred to.
> > First, not all packages have been converted to the new source format, so
> > you will see some packages in the old format. (I am going to assume that
> > everyone knows how the old format worked)
> >
> > The new format consists of a source tree in package_xxx.orig.tar.gz that
> > unpacks into a source tree as nearly identical to that provided by the
> > upstream provider as is possible; a diff.gz file containing the
> > differences between this source and the debianized version of the tree;
> > and a "Debian Source Control" file .dsc that will tell the packaging tools
> > how to unpack the source file.
> >
>
> Yup, I think that maybe my original message wasn't too clear. What I
> was trying to get at was, when a new upstream release is made and this
> filters down the stream to a Debian package, will the Debian maintainer
> simply replace the old xxx.orig.tar.gz with the new upstream version and
> update the xxx.diff.gz file accordingly, or will a source patch be made
> available to update the old xxx.orig.tar.gz to the new upstream version
> (I know some upstream maintainers supply such patches , but by no means
> all). On most updated releases such a patch will be orders of magnitude
> smaller than a fresh version of the full upstream version. Once again I
> apologise if I'm stating/restating the obvious here.
>
Sorry, diffs between upstream source releases are not provided. Although,
if you have the diff, you could certainly use it to create your own "new"
upstream source and unpack it using the above process.
> > If you have installed the dpkg and dpkg-dev packages, more recent that
> > 1.4.0 you will be able to unpack the source using these files with the
> > following command:
> >
> > dpkg-source -x package_xxxx.dsc
> >
> > in the directory containing the orig.tar.gz, diff, and dsc files. This
> > will generate a source tree you can build with:
> >
> > dpkg-buildpackage
> >
>
> Just out of interest is there something along the lines of dftp-source,
> or dpkg-source-ftp?
>
Nope.
Luck,
Dwarf
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