Re: recommendations wanted for new patch management system in xorg-x11
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:56:17PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:05:04AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:09:07AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to put the patches in debian/patches,
> > > > but they do all go in the patches directory, so it's still simple to handle.
> > >
> > > You can add
> > > QUILT_PATCHES="debian/patches"
> > > into your ~/.quiltrc
> >
> > Rock! Thank you!
>
> Which I find concerning -- how do you configure this on a per-package
> level? So if I do this for xorg, is there any other way to work with
> a package which has their patches in a different directory?
David told that he was using quilt for his own packages, and my reply
was only meaningful in that context, I assumed that he works alone on
his packages.
About your question, a solution is to symlink your directory containing
patches to a toplevel "patches". This symlink can be managed by hand
or via debian/rules targets.
Denis
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