where is the source?

Erik Bågfors zindar at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 04:56:59 CST 2005


On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:37:14 +0000, Colin Watson <cjwatson at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 03:24:13PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> > I've been searching the website, docs, wiki, rosetta etc but I haven't found
> > any place where I could find the source for the Ubuntu-specific
> > (debian-)installer. I've also sent out several mails, but haven't got any
> > replys yet, so I beg to you if somebody could help me with this simple thing.
> >
> > So, where is the source?
> 
> It's spread over a number of source packages; the list is long. We are
> going to be importing the installer's strings into Rosetta in the near
> future, though, so if you could be patient for a little longer then that
> will probably be simplest.
> 
> If you really want the source packages, look through all the package
> names in the Packages files in /dists/hoary/main/debian-installer/ and
> do 'apt-get source' on a hoary system for all of them.
>

Since you canonical guys are such arch/bazaar lovers, isn't there
a/many repo with ubuntu specific things? Will there ever be?

/Erik - who prefers darcs :)



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