Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 01:37:03PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 13:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 01:15:54PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >> >On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 13:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >>Couldn't the patch remove itself? > >> > > >> >Not if you create the patch via diff! > >> > >> Why? The patch could patch itself into a zero length file and the file > >> could be removed via "patch -E". > > > >To make the patch a zero length file, the entire contents need to be > >listed with a - before each line right? > > > >so how long is a file that completely contains itself? > > Yep. You're right. If the patch was constructed from diff and if there > was only one file, you couldn't have the patch delete itself. >
How about a script? Call it say pristine-src or something like that. You would give it a package-version for the parameter. Then the script would apply the patch and if successful remove the patch file. You could even give it some options to allow for a backup of the current src directory first. -- Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
