Oden Eriksson wrote:
> On onsdagen den 25 september 2002 11.13 Buchan Milne wrote:

>>IMHO, something like this would totally waste the Gentoo crowd (who keep
>>saying how good it is to build from source).
> 
> 
> Oh, shit! I see the problem. 

Which problem? AFAIK, all of them are solveable ...

> Hmm..., what is the point of using CVS in this 
> case then when you cannot use it fully? Is it only for viewing spec file 
> diffs or what?

No, I think if you can get the original source tarball, then in most 
cases (ie the package maintainter ensured everything besides sources 
went into cvs), it should be possible by:

$ cvs co <package> -r <release>
$ build_from_cvs <package>

(where build_from_cvs is my bash script that put all the stuff in cvs in 
the right place in the right form, ie bzip2'ed or not, and then runs rpm 
-ba <package>.spec).

Buchan

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