"Dave Korn" <dave.korn-RQamRl9Jd2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 30 August 2007 12:54, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Thanks for the quick action! Upstreams contains a *very* >> similar patch [1] to the one I produced, which confused me >> somewhat at first... > > Say, if only we had some way of managing a big confusing stack of patches > and optionally including them into or backing them out of a source > distribution ....... That's pretty easy if you make separate patches. You can do that with dpatch(1) or quilt(1). In my case Cygbuild automates it: the patches are simply put in CYGWIN-PTCHES/*.patch. I only need to remove the ones that got integrated into newer releases. The methodology is "A la Debian Style" Jari -- Welcome to FOSS revolution: we fix and modify until it shines