-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 16 August 2002 18:10, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:51:43 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >It's better to use > >the pristine source tarball provided by upstream where possible and not > >needlessly repack it, since this has nice properties like allowing > >people to compare md5sums easily. > > I am wondering how cvs-buildpackage fits into this. From what I > understand, cvs-inject checks in the unpacked upstream tarball into > the CVS, puts an upstream_version tag on it. cvs-buildpackage then > creates the orig.tar.gz from the CVS sources. Isn't that a violation > of the pristine sources principle?
I don't think it creates the orig.tar.gz from CVS _if_ the orig.tar.gz already exists in the parent directory or the build directory. i.e. ./foo_1.0.orig.tar.gz ./foo-1.0/* ./foo-1.0/debian/* In this case, running cvs-buildpackage in the foo-1.0 directory will not recreate the orig.tar.gz. Paul Cupis - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9XUGiIzuKV+SHX/kRAkZxAJ45lNB8zL3oidUGEqQ6fbAxbls2lwCfZsbL zTLhMFs7Ve2xqcMELctnG3o= =n3/t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
