On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:50:26PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Vasil Dimov wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:18:50PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > >>Vasil Dimov wrote: > >>>On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:51:40AM +0000, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > >>>>sobomax 2006-11-03 03:51:40 UTC > >>>[...] > >>>> Added files: > >>>> devel/mpatrol/files patch-..::..::src::mptrace.c > >>>Aargh :-/ > >>>I thought we were supposed to use Tools/scripts/splitpatch.pl for new > >>>patches. > >>Why so? We have Tools/scripts/patchtool.py for the few years now. > > > >The note I made was about the convention, not the exact tool used. You > >should read: > > > >"I thought we were supposed to use the convention used by > >Tools/scripts/splitpatch.pl for new patches." > > Who those "we" are and why exactly they should use that "convention"? Is > it official or what?
Those "we" are the ones creating new patches for FreeBSD ports and placing them in files/ subdirectories. _They_ should use that convention because it is better to have some convention than no convention at all. Please read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html especially: "Each patch you wish to apply should be saved into a file named patch-* where * indicates the pathname of the file that is patched, such as patch-Imakefile or patch-src-config.h ... Please only use characters [-+._a-zA-Z0-9] for naming your patches." I dunno what do you mean by "official" and if you consider the "Porters Handbook" being "official". Anyway you can name your patches [EMAIL PROTECTED]>-->---ILoveYouMary-src_file.c if you like but you will raise usless discussions like the current one. -- Vasil Dimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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