On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:44:02AM +0200, Peter De Wachter wrote: > Op Mon, 25 May 2009 03:36:28 +0100 > schreef Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>: > > > Cool - that looks really useful. However, it looks like you're just > > running "dpkg-source -x" to unpack packages. This misses any Debian > > changes made using a patch system. Unfortunately there is no standard > > mechanism to apply patches in version 1 source patches, but it should > > be easy enough to support the standard patch queue formats. > > I know, it's not ideal. Unfortunately, running "debian/rules patch" is > going to be difficult, as the site runs on a FreeBSD system :) [1][2] > (It's a friend's system that has lots of spare cpu cycles and bandwidth > available.) > > > Ideally, you would also unpack multi-tarball packages such as gcc > > before indexing. When I wrote a program to search through Debian > > source (without indexing) I recursively unpacked all tarballs. Note > > that there is a tar implementation that includes some weird tarballs > > as test cases. > > That's a nice idea. > > > [1] I might try installing Debian/kFreeBSD in a chroot. The FAQ claims > it won't work "perfectly", but maybe it'll do. > > [2] Whose bug is it if FreeBSD's gunzip can't decompress some Debian > packages?
How much space/bandwidth do you need? AndyC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
