Re: Debian source code search engine
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:36:28AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 22:31 +0200, Peter De Wachter wrote:
>> I've set up a search engine which indexes Debian's source code:
>> http://walrus.rave.org/source/
> Cool - that looks really useful. However, it looks like you're just
> running "dpkg-source -x" to unpack packages. This misses any Debian
> changes made using a patch system. Unfortunately there is no
> standard mechanism to apply patches in version 1 source patches, but
> it should be easy enough to support the standard patch queue
> formats.
Well, Peter could do "make -f debian/rules patch || [ $? = 2 ]", which
catches the case where th recommended "patch" target is there and
cleanly exists without error when it does not exist.
--
Lionel
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