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Re: 49734308 Nov 25 14:53 xfree86_4.0.1.orig.tar.gz



Christian T. Steigies wrote:

> I was trying to build the latest x4.0 on m68k. I could not unpack because
> the orig.tar.gz file has a different size than the previous version. Looking
> at an ftp mirror I see that orig.tar.gz also has the date of the dsc and
> diff files. Was that done intentional? I thought orig.tar.gz was uploaded
> only once for every upstream version? I do not want to download 50MB for
> every test build if 4MB are enough...

The package changelog says that "CVS rdiff problems necessitate fresh upload
of .orig.tar.gz". I don't know exactly what that means, though.

Torbjörn Andersson




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