Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 2/18/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:11:09PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, In my great attempts to minimise bandwidth usage, I download Debian source packages since they contain only Debian changes (.diff.gz and perhaps the .dsc files). But

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:54:45PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 2/18/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:11:09PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, In my great attempts to minimise bandwidth usage, I download Debian source packages since they

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 2/19/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:54:45PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Nope. You seem to mention the Debian-specific diffs. I'm looking for upstream diffs: diff between OOo 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 (orig.diff perhaps), not between Debian 2.0.1-3 and

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread John Hasler
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe writes: Me not sure I understand: I know Debian's got diffs, but those diffs are only Debian-specific. So for each source package you got orig, diff, and dsc, and nothing else. Right. What I'm looking for is the 4th file which also got the diff between orig files

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 2/19/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:54:45PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Nope. You seem to mention the Debian-specific diffs. I'm looking for upstream diffs: diff between OOo

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 2/20/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 2/19/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'd expect an upstream diff to be availible from the upstream website, if it exists. I want to avoid this step and am

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:54:34AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 2/20/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 2/19/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'd expect an upstream diff to be availible from the

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 2/20/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:54:34AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: IIUC, you mean you want to know the benefits of doing diff files, as compared to doing binary ones? If you got massive bandwidth, binary's cool, but if you want all 3 DVD's

are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-18 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, In my great attempts to minimise bandwidth usage, I download Debian source packages since they contain only Debian changes (.diff.gz and perhaps the .dsc files). But then, are .orig.tar diffs for upstream changes available? I'm thinking of monsters like Linux and OOo, that I could just apply

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12:11:09PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, In my great attempts to minimise bandwidth usage, I download Debian source packages since they contain only Debian changes (.diff.gz and perhaps the .dsc files). But then, are .orig.tar diffs for upstream changes