Peter Mutsaers writes: > Normally I stay current with hamm using dselect or dpkg directly. This > uses binary packages. The drawback is that sometimes (most often) the > real package doesn't change, but only the patches that were made to > 'debianize' it. > > Now I wonder whether it is possible (e.g. like the FreeBSD ports > system) to stay current using source code; thus one only downloads the > underlying package once, and gets new versions of the debian patches > only.
Sure you can. Just compile them right away. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .