On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:55:02AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:39:05AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > Part of the problem is that we lack good tools to do this extra work > > > for us. > > > > As an unrelated idea which popped up when reading this: Do you think it > > would be a sensible enhancement to uupdate if it could deal with a list > > of files (wildcard strings that could be feed to `rm -rf`) which should > > be removed from the upstream tarball? This could simplify repackaging > > to a certain amount. > > I use a script for this: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debichem/unstable/openbabel/debian/watch?view=markup > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debichem/unstable/openbabel/debian/get-orig-source.sh?view=markup > > There are several other examples in this tree. It is pretty simple. Just > replace line 20 in get-orig-source.sh with whatever you want to do here. > FYI: I don't make use of uupdate. I don't need it in my setup.
I'm using a more sophisticated script, that allows to filter at the same time as the file is downloaded, without actually extracting to disk. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mozilla/iceweasel.git;a=blob;f=debian/repack.py;h=a797d5471f20e0f8de155d483e5ad2f1b2c3bdc5;hb=c1ebf8be93add288837377e4fdd87f9c9f1082cc This can seem a worthless optimization, but when your source tarball is more than 80MB bzipped, it makes a huge difference (especially when downloading is rather slow, in which case the whole process is about as fast as downloading alone) It supports wildcards, and extra filters (sed-like). See, for example, the filter used on iceweasel source: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mozilla/iceweasel.git;a=blob;f=debian/source.filter;h=ec7efac7b97add1f39480c07fecb4b70ae7a7ec8;hb=c1ebf8be93add288837377e4fdd87f9c9f1082cc Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120817102356.ga7...@glandium.org
