Re: Best Packaging Practices, act II

[Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>]

Hi Raphael!

You wrote:

> Packaging tools and common cases :
> * Managing multiple patches
>   - dbs package
>   - hello-dbs is an example
>   - is there another tool that doesn't require to provide a tar archive
>     in the source package ?

The aumix package (2.7-19 and higher) handles this quite nicely.

It first put the patches in a make variable:

  PATCHES:=$(shell cd debian/diffs && ls *.patch)
  REVPATCHES:=$(strip $(shell A=; for i in $(PATCHES); do A="$$i $$A"; done; \
              echo $$A))

The REVPATCHES variable contains the patches in reverse sequence, which
is used to unapply them.

Then, new targets "patch" and "patch-stamp" are introduced that do the
actual patching:

  # apply patches in debian/diffs to source
  patch: patch-stamp
  patch-stamp:
        for PATCH in $(PATCHES); do \
          echo \# Applying patch $$PATCH; \
          patch -p1 < debian/diffs/$$PATCH; \
        done
        touch patch-stamp

And the clean target is modified to unapply the patches:

  clean:
  [..]
        # 
        # unapply patches
        #
        [ -e "patch-stamp" ] && \
          for PATCH in $(REVPATCHES); do \
            echo \# Unapplying patch $$PATCH; \
            patch -R -p1 < debian/diffs/$$PATCH; \
          done || true
          rm -f patch-stamp
	      
-- 
Kind regards,
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| Bas Zoetekouw                  | Si l'on sait exactement ce   |
|--------------------------------| que l'on va faire, a quoi    |
| zoetekw@phys.uu.nl             | bon le faire?                |
|    bas@A-Es2.uu.nl             |               Pablo Picasso  |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+ 


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