[osgeo4w-dev] revision control the whole darn thing

Jürgen E. Fischer jef at norbit.de
Sat Nov 10 01:56:47 PST 2012


Hi Matt,

On Fri, 09. Nov 2012 at 15:34:44 -0800, Matt Wilkie wrote:
> It seems really silly to build a whole new package often weighing in at
> several or tens of megabytes when all one needs to do is fix a line in a
> batch file or  move a .dll

Simply ssh to upload.osgeo.org, extract the package, modify what you need and
tar it up again.   That's what I do, when I have minor changes like the above.


Jürgen

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