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Re: Advice on dpatch vs post-patching?



Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson@anu.edu.au> writes:

> At this point I'm leaning towards converting sed to dpatch... Any
> thoughts from others would be appreciated though.

I would use dpatch.  The other advantage of going that route is that it's
much easier to generate patches that the upstream maintainers might take.
They still might not be willing, but at least you have a fighting chance,
where as the post-configure sed stuff they'll never want.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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