On 08/12/2007, Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is my intention that distributions apply those > patches consecutively to the base release to produce the distribution > release.
OK, thanks Tom, that is a useful clarification, I'll stick with that strategy. > The base release tarballs are always available but may have been > moved to the superseded/ directory. this is a bit problematic though - the source tarball location is one piece of information that we put in the RPMs - it is useful for things like the lookaside caching, and auditing of packages etc. It's really helpful to have a clear and obvious audit trail from a package as installed to the upstream sources. J. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
