On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:31:06PM +0100, Torbjörn Andersson wrote: > 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. It means that doing this: cvs -q -d /scratch/4.x/cvsup rdiff -u -r xf-4_0_1 -r xf-4_0_1f xc > ../401f.diff Led to a case where 401f.diff could not be applied to the unpacked sources of XFree86. I've been told that sometimes this happens, because when you have a large volume of changes, and RCS version numbers hopping around, the patch tool just can't make sense of it. -- G. Branden Robinson | The greatest productive force is human Debian GNU/Linux | selfishness. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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