Re: recommendations wanted for new patch management system in xorg-x11
|| On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:40:35 +0100
|| barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) wrote:
db> 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?
db> David told that he was using quilt for his own packages, and my reply
db> was only meaningful in that context, I assumed that he works alone on
db> his packages.
db> About your question, a solution is to symlink your directory containing
db> patches to a toplevel "patches". This symlink can be managed by hand
db> or via debian/rules targets.
It can be managed by SVN itself.
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