Re: Proposal: incremental release process (the package pool)
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 07:40:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>
> It also means finding some way of choosing which packages should be in
> which Packages file. Currently we use dpkg-scanpackages and physically
> move files around (ie, this is yet more scripts to be written).
Of course. But this is not a show stopper.
Indeed, it is possible to extend such a script to create distributions on
the fly, because creating a new distribution is cheap (creating a new
packages file), where it was expensive earlier (creating a new symlink
tree).
Thanks,
Marcus
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The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders
Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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