Kai Grossjohann wrote: > We might like to install some non-standard Debian packages. I personally split these into two different catagories. 1. Those that I am going to distribute to more than one machine. In which case I make my own packages out of them. 2. Those that I think are just going to be local, single machine installations. In which case I install them directly in /usr/local as me. I am in group 'staff' and can 'make && make install' directly. If #2 becomes popular I convert it into #1. > I think for our own packages, it is fairly simple: just put the source > code in CVS. > > For Emacs this is less obvious, since we are combining two sources: > Jerome's Debian packaging with Emacs CVS sources. Not sure how to put > that in our own CVS. You will probably want to look into branching where your changes are maintained on a branch. Searching CVS faqs for "vendor branches" will probably turn up something useful in this area. Bob
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