On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 02:25, Earnie Boyd wrote: > 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.
Sure. But this is all predicated on the patch being in the source dir. (And someone needs to write the script). Chuck, I haven't heard from you on this bar the initial comments - and given the number of packages you maintain.... Also, please note: I'm not suggesting that anyone has to repackage existing stuff... only that new packages, and new releases of existing packages should follow the guidelines we establish. I think anything else would be madness. Rob
