Re: Packages that require enormous amounts of source

1997-10-22 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On 21 Oct 1997, Mark Eichin wrote: > I hate to say it, but this is one nice thing about rpm spec files: you > just list Source: ftp://host/path/foo.tar.gz and if foo.tar.gz is in > the local SOURCES dir, it uses it -- and handles multiple Source: > lines. (It's trivial, but it's useful...) IIRC,

Re: Packages that require enormous amounts of source

1997-10-22 Thread Mark Eichin
I hate to say it, but this is one nice thing about rpm spec files: you just list Source: ftp://host/path/foo.tar.gz and if foo.tar.gz is in the local SOURCES dir, it uses it -- and handles multiple Source: lines. (It's trivial, but it's useful...) In particular, I'd find something like that usefu

Re: Packages that require enormous amounts of source

1997-10-22 Thread Anthony Fok
On 21 Oct 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Hmmm... Looking through the policy manual, I can't see such a > requirement either. But what is the proper way to specify in the > source package that additional sources are needed? And where should > they go? "Source Dependency"? ^_^ AFAIK, it was discussed

Re: Packages that require enormous amounts of source

1997-10-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does policy really require this? If so, that's silly, IMHO. Take > g77, for example; currently it requires unpacked gcc source to be > built. I think this is perfectly reasonable and would be seriously > hacked off if I had to bring back 7Mb of redundant

Re: Packages that require enormous amounts of source

1997-10-22 Thread James Troup
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maybe you could use the orig.tar.gz from other packages. > > Right, that's a good idea; however, it doesn't solve the basic > problem of policy requiring the full source. Does policy really require this? If so, that's silly, IMHO. Take g77, for example

Re: Packages that require enormous amounts of source

1997-10-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In my opinion, this is an unreasonable amount of source code to > > include in a source package, since all the source code is available > > elsewhere. However, Debian policy requires *all* applicable source to > >

Re: Packages that require enormous amounts of source

1997-10-21 Thread Guy Maor
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my opinion, this is an unreasonable amount of source code to > include in a source package, since all the source code is available > elsewhere. However, Debian policy requires *all* applicable source to > be included in a source package (right?), and a b

Packages that require enormous amounts of source

1997-10-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
Some packages, such as my package Checker, require enormous amounts of source code that can be obtained elsewhere. For instance, checker needs the following files: 684366 Checker-0.8.tar.gz 5139402 binutils-2.8.1.tar.gz 7136085 gcc-2.7.2.3.tar.gz 82379 gdbm-1.7.3.tar.gz 602023 gettext-0.10.27