Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Kevin B. McCarty [Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:39:17 -0500]:
>> Out of curiosity, does quilt have a mechanism similar to dpatch that >> allows you to treat shell scripts as "patches"? My inability to find >> such a feature was the main reason I opted for dpatch over quilt in the >> Cernlib package -- I needed to move a bunch of files around within the >> source, and doing so with a pure patch system will result in huge and >> fragile diff files (two copies of each file to be moved, which breaks if >> upstream changes any of them!). > > No, in quilt patches are patches, not scripts. :) Why don't you move > files around in debian/rules, anyway? I partly answered this elsewhere in the thread (it's nice to logically keep together the file-moving operation with the patching of the Imakefiles to reflect the different file locations, in two files in debian/patches starting with the same number). The other reason is that I'm trying to keep my (fairly substantial) patches to Cernlib [1] accessible to non-Debian distributions. For instance Patrice Dumas is using my set of patches in creating Cernlib RPMs for Fedora Extras. Moving the files around in debian/rules but patching the Imakefiles in separate patches under debian/patches would make his life a lot harder :-P [1] This includes things like creating shared libraries as well as static ones, removing circular library dependencies, fixing things to work on AMD64, etc.... Unfortunately upstream is almost dead and I don't think they are likely to accept such changes. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
