Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Hi, On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:40:26AM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hi Charles, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:31:06AM -0700, Brandon Philips a écrit : I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? use what you

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Hi, I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? use what you like. I usually find quilt simpler, but really, I care much about you beeing comfortable with it than me. You may want to read[0]. Wow, quilt is much easier to use. The

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Hi, I was unclear. On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 12:59:44PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? use what you like. I usually find quilt simpler, but really, I care much about you beeing comfortable

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Le Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:50:11PM +0900, Osamu Aoki a écrit : I guess the original poster (not me) felt even doing this simple task was more than just cp andom.diff ebian/patches/01_some_patch.dpatch. I like dpatch approach to lead people to add description since it documents patch well.

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Le mardi 27 mars 2007 02:23, Jörg Sommer a écrit : If nothing in the diff.gz touches files outside of debian there is actually no need for it to be a diff.  It could be debian.tar.gz which would be able to preserve file permissions and symlinks. Is the diff.tar.gz format accepted? I know

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Romain Beauxis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I know it is not. A native debian package can have a single tar.gz but not a package with upstream releases.. This is also handy when uploading new debian releases since you don't have to upload the orig tarball at each time.. How would

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a simple and straghtforward patch system would lower the bar for new packagers, as well as open the way to have .diff.gz files which would only touch the debian directory, instead of containing a mixture of packaging instructions, code changes,

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Hello Matthias, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a simple and straghtforward patch system would lower the bar for new packagers, as well as open the way to have .diff.gz files which would only touch the debian directory, instead of

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Le Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:19:28PM -0400, Matthias Julius a écrit : If nothing in the diff.gz touches files outside of debian there is actually no need for it to be a diff. It could be debian.tar.gz which would be able to preserve file permissions and symlinks. I think that it would be

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Le Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:40:26AM +, Jörg Sommer a écrit : For the moment I use dpatch, but is is a slight work overhead since it is needed to convert patches to dpatches, Are you sure, this is necessary? AFAIK the comments and shell commands are optional. Hi, I just tried to

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

On 2007-03-21, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The easiest way to manage patches I know is cdbs, but I was not brave enough to study wether it is possible to separate this feature from the others. It is possible to use cdbs patchsys in non-cdbs packages, but it is very ugly and I

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Hi Charles, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:31:06AM -0700, Brandon Philips a écrit : I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? use what you like. I usually find quilt simpler, but really, I care much about you beeing

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Charles Plessy wrote: Le Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:31:06AM -0700, Brandon Philips a écrit : I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? use what you like. I usually find quilt simpler, but really, I care much about you beeing comfortable with it than me. You may want

quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Le Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:31:06AM -0700, Brandon Philips a écrit : I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? use what you like. I usually find quilt simpler, but really, I care much about you beeing comfortable with it than me. You may want to

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

Le mercredi 21 mars 2007 01:16, Charles Plessy a écrit : I hope that somebody will answer me that I overlooked the patch system of my dreams and give me its name... Well, I would say that there are no ways inbetween.. Either you use cdbs, but you need to use their rule target management system,