On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 10:28:19PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 01:20:19PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Is there a specific reason glibc does this? > > Yes. > > > Can it not have a set of patches, one per change, as is usual practice? > > Fedora glibc sources are from git, and the bit diff is just generated > diff between the upstream snapshot and corresponding Fedora snapshot, > sans a few Fedora-only directories (which are packaged as extra tarball).
That's not a reason. Why not keep the Fedora branch in git and make patches from it: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/nice-rpm-git-patch-management-trick/ This method is quite probably simpler than the one you're using now. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
