On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 05:52:16PM +1000, James Westby wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 16:07 +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > And how do you store that in a VCS if a second tarball includes files > > that actually overwrite files of the main orig tarball. At build time > > directories in the main orig tarball are supposed to be overwritten by > > the part tarball but if you go the same way in a VCS you lose some > > information, don't you? > > I'm not sure what information would be lost, could you expand?
Imagine an orig tarball with a config directory and an orig part-tarball named orig-config.tar.whatever. The second tarball would overwrite what's in the config dir of the first one when executing dpkg-source -x. If you just store that unpacked data in a VCS you've lost what's in the config dir in the first tarball because it's overwritten. Hauke
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