Adam Heath writes: > On 27 Dec 2001, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > * Adam Heath > > > > | dbs(doogie build system, debian build system) > > | > > | See autofs, apache, x(contains a pre-alpha version of dbs). > > | > > | Do NOT see glibc, gcc. Those use dpatch, which was around before dbs. > > Dbs > > | has a larger following(but well under 100 packages use it). > > > > What are the differences between DBS and dpatch, and why should I > > choose one or the other? > > dpatch offers no patch ordering. dbs does
it does have patch ordering. the order is determined by the debian_patches macro. > Also, an unreleased dbs supports patch dependencies. It was a quick simple > modification to dbs to get it to support this. Dbs uses a single script to > apply all patches, which makes adding features easy. dpatch turns each patch > into a script, which means the scriptage needs to be updated by hand when a > new feature is needed. yes, the rationale is to run commands after the patch was applied (mostly autoconf to regenerate configure) > Neither dbs nor dpatch are documented. found this out while looking at dbs...
