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Re: understand dpatch



On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:01 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 18:59 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
> > To get working dpatches I recommend using the 'dpatch-edit-patch'
> > command. 
> 
> Great tool!
> But tell me:
> I had a look at the man page, but I did not see how to go on or edit an
> already existing dpatch.
> For example, I made my dpatch:
> 
> $ dpatch-edit-patch foo
> [... edit 454546456476 lines code ...]
> $ exit
> 
> Then when compile, I see that I made a typo.
> I dont wana re-edit the whole code I modified.
> How should I do?
> Yes, I know the solution may be to make small patches but no a very big
> one...

Move your first patch out of the way, run dpatch-edit-patch as if you
were rewriting it from scratch, apply the original patch manually, make
your corrections, done.

If it's a simple typo in one line you can also edit the patch file by
hand.

> Second question, it did not generate the patches/00list file and and
> patches/DPATCH. I copyed them from an older package, but how to generate
> them?

It's just a simple list of file names.

cd debian/patches
ls *.dpatch > 00list


John

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