r39502 - /website/subversion.pod
jawnsy-guest at users.alioth.debian.org
jawnsy-guest at users.alioth.debian.org
Wed Jul 8 01:20:24 UTC 2009
Author: jawnsy-guest
Date: Wed Jul 8 01:20:15 2009
New Revision: 39502
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/?sc=1&rev=39502
Log:
Remove the whole 'uscan --no-symlink' deal and replaced it with: uscan OR uscan --rename
Modified:
website/subversion.pod
Modified: website/subversion.pod
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/website/subversion.pod?rev=39502&op=diff
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--- website/subversion.pod (original)
+++ website/subversion.pod Wed Jul 8 01:20:15 2009
@@ -282,12 +282,19 @@
utility from within the C<trunk/> directory to check for and fetch the latest
upstream release:
- uscan --no-symlink
-
-This will download the latest upstream tarball to C<../>. The availability of
-new upstream versions of packages with watch files can be easily checked by using
-the Debian Watch Health System (DEHS) at L<http://dehs.alioth.debian.org> or by going to
-L<http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi>.
+ uscan
+
+If you don't like the symlink it produces, you can do:
+
+ uscan --rename
+
+which will rename the tarball instead of symlinking it.
+
+This will download the latest upstream tarball to C<../> and give it a proper
+name (as a Debian original package tarball). The availability of new upstream
+versions of packages with watch files can be easily checked by using the
+Debian Watch Health System (DEHS) at L<http://dehs.alioth.debian.org> or by
+going to L<http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi>.
If the package has no watch file, you have to download the upstream tarball
manually. Or you could create a watch file yourself, which is always a good
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