Re: Patching a patch with quilt?

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 06:16:37PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> Sorry to bother you again ;-) How to add a patch of a patch in quilt?
> 
> Before:
> #ls debian/patches
> old_patch
> series
> 
> #cat debian/patches/series/
> old_patch
> 
> After:
> # ls debian/patches
> old_patch
> new_patch: modifying the old_patch
> 
> # cat debian/patches/series
> old_patch
> new patch?
> 
> Which quilt commands to use??

Is there a good reason not to just update old_patch to the content of
old_patch+new_patch?  Otherwise, you need to make sure that new_patch
sorts later than old_patch by putting it after it in series.

Or is your question about how to generate new_patch?


Michael