On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 15:27:46 +0200, you wrote: >We've had a couple of discussions about shortcomings of the way >we currently implement source packages, and the various ways to >work around it.
I like that idea. However, I have an additional issue that I'd like to see addressed. We are a small ISP using Debian on your server system. We have also sold a few machines to customers running mostly web and mail servers running Debian that we're still doing administration for. I dream of a system where all those machines could do a cron'ed apt-get dist-upgrade in the night, so we'd need the updates done non-interactively. We have our own Debian mirror and have tweaked some packages so that they behave differently to the stock Debian packages. For these packages, we have (1) the pristine sources (2) the debian patch from the source archive and (3) our own patch that is applied to the source dir before building the package. I'd like to see the new package tools supporting this transparently, so that dpkg-source for example would look for other patches fitting the package to be unpacked and automatically apply them. Is this being considered? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
