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Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?



On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:24:07 -0600, Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
wrote:
>[Daniel Leidert]
>> Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:01 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber:
>> > It has now shown to be necessary to apply patches to the upstream
>> > docs. I would like to use dpatch for that.
>> 
>> Could you also write a bug-report for dpatch? This is a feature I also
>> miss and I would of course support such a request.
>
>Well, note that (1) is already possible and not even all that hard.
>That is, to have a .dpatch file whose purpose is to unpack the tarball
>on 'patch' and delete the tree on 'unpatch'.  dpatch was written with
>that sort of flexibility in mind - it seems a shame not to use that
>flexibility for one of the few things it's actually good for.  (I've
>always viewed that flexibility in dpatch to be a serious case of
>overengineering, but this is probably a valid use case.)

Ok, so, as a member of the dpatch team, I'm going to set a use-case
for this ;)  Let's see if it can be done as designed.

Greetings
Marc

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