Re: advice on site-specific modified .debs

2004-08-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
I'm going to respond here and hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong or if there's a better way. On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:52:42AM +0200, Alexander List wrote: > Hello, > > I am about to create site-specific debs, e.g. patched versions of official > Debian packages with local add-ons (that don't

Re: advice on site-specific modified .debs

2004-08-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
I'm going to respond here and hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong or if there's a better way. On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:52:42AM +0200, Alexander List wrote: > Hello, > > I am about to create site-specific debs, e.g. patched versions of official > Debian packages with local add-ons (that don't

advice on site-specific modified .debs

2004-08-13 Thread Alexander List
Hello, I am about to create site-specific debs, e.g. patched versions of official Debian packages with local add-ons (that don't make sense for upstream). So far, we were naming those packages: -packagename This has the disadvantage that a lot of stuff in debian/rules etc. has to be changed (di

advice on site-specific modified .debs

2004-08-13 Thread Alexander List
Hello, I am about to create site-specific debs, e.g. patched versions of official Debian packages with local add-ons (that don't make sense for upstream). So far, we were naming those packages: -packagename This has the disadvantage that a lot of stuff in debian/rules etc. has to be changed (di