Re: [sprezzos-dev] Re: Debian derivatives census: SprezzOS: zfs-linux: failure to apply patches
Nick Black left as an exercise for the reader:
> Nick Black left as an exercise for the reader:
> > On it; this was one of my very first packaging efforts, and needs an
> > overhaul. I can't pull it down without breaking certain cases of our
> > installer, but will have at least a properly-patched one up by tonight.
> > Thanks for the heads up! Sorry for the delay in response.
>
> The new 0.6.0.91~rc14-SprezzOS1 package is believed to fix this issue:
>
> [skynet](1) $ dget -qxu http://www.sprezzatech.com/apt/pool/main/z/zfs-linux/zfs-linux_0.6.0.91~rc14-SprezzOS1.dsc
> dpkg-source: info: extracting zfs-linux in zfs-linux-0.6.0.91~rc14
> dpkg-source: info: unpacking zfs-linux_0.6.0.91~rc14.orig.tar.xz
> dpkg-source: info: unpacking zfs-linux_0.6.0.91~rc14-SprezzOS1.debian.tar.gz
> [skynet](0) $
So, I've figured out how this situation (double-patched source file) occurs:
- debuild fails on package after applying patch A to file F to get F'
- i go in to fix it, creating patch B to patched file F' to get F''
- i stash the patch, and add it to the quilt series file
- package now builds with debuild
I can see how there would be a problem building from source if there was no
known ordering to the patches, and thus B was applied to F rather than F'.
So far as I understand, however, quilt applies patches serially from the
series file (hence the name). Thus there is a well-defined ordering, and
B ought always be applied following A.
So far as I can tell, so long as a patch ordering is provided, there's
really no problem whatsoever with this. Indeed, debuild appears to work on
exactly this basis -- otherwise, step 4 above would fail. That debuild
successfully builds from debian/ + unpacked tarball is the entire reason why
SprezzOS has source packages which blow up the Derivatives Census.
Paul: Why doesn't this suffice for your package building methodology? What
am I missing here?
Thanks! --nick
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