On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 11:58 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > A number of patches in openSUSE packages fail to apply with GNU patch > 2.7.4 while they did apply fine with versions 2.7.3 and earlier. The > problem is when one of the path components of a file is a symbolic link > to a directory.
Why do the patches touch those files via their symlinked pathnames rather than using direct pathnames? For git-generated patches, for example, only the direct pathnames are used. Tim. */
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