Re: glibc-common-2.2.5-44.legacy.6 update

[Jesse Keating <jkeating j2solutions net>]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 18:38 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Is there a way for us to develop packages that don't require updating 
> ALL the files in a package?  For instance, in the latest glibc-common 
> update only a few lines of source code changed.  Yet on my test system I 
> see a hundred files (mostly locale files) that are reported as being 
> changed by tripwire, but probably didn't really require a change from 
> the ones in the earlier package.  Is this a nuisance that we could 
> prevent if we only released packages that were built on a common build 
> system?
> 
> Just looking for more insight into keeping things consistent. ;-)

The problem is that a package rebuild will rebuild all files within the
package.  There isn't a way around that.

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