> > (i) ship a base tarball that is close to the SVN trunk, and make a patch > > script that calls SVN to catch up to a prescribed revision number. The > > base tarball might be empty but it's not nice to the server ... > > An acceptable method (that has been used by some packages) is to get the > diff to an svn or cvs version and make a patch file from it.
Sure, that's doable, but it becomes quite tedious if you want to track a fast-moving project ... Are you implying that it is _not_ acceptable to call svn (or cvs or git or whatever) from the patch script ? /v -- Vincent Beffara UMPA - ENS-Lyon 46 allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex 07 Tél : 04 72 72 85 25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
