On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:23:41PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The DCCA distribution is a mixture of packages from Sarge plus some > > backports. In all cases, the Maintainer: field appears to be the same as > > in Debian. Several derived distributions (gnuLinEx, Knoppix, Mepis, > > Linspire, Progency, Sun-Wah, UserLinux (ha ha ha) and Xandros) are > > supposed to be using these packages in an unmodified form, as I > > understand it. > > Have they modified these packages?
Some of them, yes. Mostly the backports. > What do they do about version numbering of recompilations? (Do they > recompile?) They have to recompile the backports, at least. I haven't checked the MD5s of the binaries, but that's easy enough to do. > Do they modify the packages at all? As stated, in some cases yes. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
