Re: [Gnewsense-dev] linux-2.6

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:29:13 -0400
schreef dww <address@hidden>:

> 1. Why did they use the diff file format rather than regular source
> in a tar ball?
> Wheezy did it in the usual way with files linux_3.2.54.orig.tar.xz and
> linux_3.2.54-2.debian.tar.xz

They probably didn't get around to using quilt in Squeeze, so it still
used the old format.

> 2. Is there a tool (and command line) to convert the diff file to
> actual source (debian directory and subdirectories)?

You can grab all the source files with dget, e.g.

dget
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.32-48squeeze4.dsc

That should automatically unpack the source package, but if it doesn't
then use dpkg-source, e.g.

dpkg-source -x linux-2.6_2.6.32-48squeeze4.dsc