On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:45:10AM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > > 2006-01-30 Eric Blake <ebb9<at>byu.net>
> > >
> > > * templates/generic-build-script: Add ability to apply upstream
> > > patches, listed in CYGWIN-PATCHES/upstream_patches.lst.
> >
> > Now, for the upstream patches functionality, I think it would be
> > easier if I actually posted my changes and we could compare on-list.
> > I'll clean them up and post them in the next couple of days.
>
> FWIW, when I looked at this, it looked easiest just to apply the patches
> in unpack().
Maybe, but I'd rather keep unpack() as it is -- i.e., a helper function to
replace an unconditional "tar xf". That way, if a package has non-tar.gz
source archives, the maintainers don't have to rack their brains to figure
out how to edit unpack().
Igor
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