On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:08:57PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Also, according to some tests of mine, it seems that diffs are not
> granted to be ed scripts compatible with "patch -e", right?
I stand corrected. They can indeed be applied by using "patch --ed",
which is what I'm now doing successfully.
> So the first request is what do you think about exporting the patching
> machinery in some libapt-*. Assuming the answer is no, is it possible to
> use /usr/lib/apt/methods/rred asking it to do the patching for me? I'm
> trying to understand the API to talk with it, but so far I haven't had
> any luck. Is the interaction language with methods documented some
> where?
Still, I would welcome hints on this ...
Cheers.
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