Hi, >>"Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Karl> @drifting{ Karl> It just occured to me that perhaps it would be good to have a master Karl> CVS archive of Debian, and the package source could be downloaded and Karl> installed as now, using ftp or the new `apt-get'... I guess that Karl> would also perform a `dpkg-source -x'. The source packages could Karl> contain `CVS' directories that would link them back to the canonical Karl> Debian anon ro-CVS, so folks could `cvs update' and `cvs diff'. ______________________________________________________________________ CVS-INJECT(1) Debian GNU/Linux manual CVS-INJECT(1) NAME cvs-inject - inject a debian source package into a CVS repository SYNOPSIS cvs-inject [options] <package>.dsc This utility can be used to generate a unified CVS source tree, for example, with find /var/spool/mirror/debian/hamm/hamm/source \ -type f -name \*.dsc | while read i; do j=$(dirname $i | sed -e s:source/:: \ -e s:/var/spool/mirror/debian/:: ) cvs-inject -x$j $i done Which happily gobbled up the sources and created a CVS repository on my machine until the partition filled up. ______________________________________________________________________ Set up some space, and I shall do it (I have had some talks with someone who thinks they can give me some space for the CVS archive). Stay tuned. manoj -- A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." Stephen Crane Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E