Hi, On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: > It is impossible to clone a quilt-patched tree with standard tools. > > I tried the following: > * Complete copy with "cp -a" or "cp -r": > Fails on unreadable files in .pc. > * Hardlinked clone with "cp -al": > Fails because quilt appends to .pc/applied-patches and the list of > applied patches gets out-of-sync quickly. > > Setting to important as this breaks building of other packages.
Don't expect any fix soon, despite the RFH, not much has changed on quilt's maintenance. We still have lots of debian specific patch and fixing this certainly requires upstream cooperation which none of us seems to have the time (even if Ryan told me that he would work on it). I also think that fixing #534840 would be enough to fix your problem. AFAIK, it's the only reason that makes cp -a fail. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
