Re: Patching a patch with quilt?

[Svante Signell <srs@kth.se>]

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 11:07 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> 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?

You mean to do that outside quilt?

> Otherwise, you need to make sure that new_patch
> sorts later than old_patch by putting it after it in series.

The new_patch modifies the old patch in debian/series so it had to be
placed _before_ the old patch, which actually modify files in the
sources. But the actual problem was a little more complicated than that.

> Or is your question about how to generate new_patch?

This worked for me:
# ls .
src_dir new_patch
# cd src_dir
# patch -p1  < ../new_patch

Thanks!