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[Philip Pemberton <ygroups@...>]

Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> svn co https://kicad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kicad/tags/kicad-2008-07-15
> svn co 
> https://kicad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kicad/tags/kicad-doc-2008-07-15
>
> So I'd like to repeat my original question, see above.

Assuming he's using RPM, I suspect the problem is that RPM insists on taking 
its source code from a tarball. A source RPM actually includes the tarball and 
a bunch of patch files. RPM untars the source, applies the patches, then 
builds it. About 80% of the time it works fine (and keeps the source code 
clean). This is one of the 20% of cases where it's a complete pain in the neck :)

Dpkg (Debian package manager) actually builds the source package from the 
files that are present when it kicks off the build. You can provide a tarball 
and build a patch from it, but the .src.deb will always have a complete copy 
of the source code inside it. If you really wanted to check out the code from 
SVN, CVS, Hg, Git or whatever, you can just tweak the 'debian/rules' file 
(which is really just a specially formatted Makefile) to do just that.

The other problem is that most distributions won't accept packages for 
inclusion in the main repositories if they have to check code out of CVS or 
SVN. Tags can be moved, repositories changed around. Tarballs of source code, 
once created, generally aren't modified, and can be easily stored and 
integrity-checked (md5sum, sha1sum, or if you're feeling masochistic, csum).

Just throwing my two pence into the jar...

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