On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:24:07 -0600, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Daniel Leidert] >> Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:01 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: >> > It has now shown to be necessary to apply patches to the upstream >> > docs. I would like to use dpatch for that. >> >> Could you also write a bug-report for dpatch? This is a feature I also >> miss and I would of course support such a request. > >Well, note that (1) is already possible and not even all that hard. >That is, to have a .dpatch file whose purpose is to unpack the tarball >on 'patch' and delete the tree on 'unpatch'. dpatch was written with >that sort of flexibility in mind - it seems a shame not to use that >flexibility for one of the few things it's actually good for. (I've >always viewed that flexibility in dpatch to be a serious case of >overengineering, but this is probably a valid use case.)
Ok, so, as a member of the dpatch team, I'm going to set a use-case for this ;) Let's see if it can be done as designed. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
