On 21/05/15 15:59, Isaac Dunham wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 02:08:23PM +0200, Anto wrote:
Another question is about generating the patch files to be added into
debian/patches directory. What I have been doing so far are the followings,
to get the patch files which look similar to the official patches:
1. Create "a" and "b" directory
2. Copy the files from the original source package including their directory
structures, into "a" and "b" directories
If the file does not exist on the original sourcepackage, only generate
its directory structure on "a" directory and put the new file on "b"
directory under the same directory structure
3. Modify only the files on "b" directory
4. Run "git diff --no-prefix --no-index a/ b/ > <name of the patch>.patch"
I am sure that is not the proper way to do it. So could you please let me
know how to properly build the patches, especially for off-line purpose so
no local and remote git repositories?
* The standard tool for Debian packages is "quilt", which needs a litle
bit of setup to make it use debian/patches.
You will need to "add" files that you want to edit *before* changing them.
* git's default format is:
--- a/
+++ b/
You do not need to do anything other than make sure that everything has
been committed to git before you start editing; git will store the contents
of the repository internally.
HTH,
Isaac Dunham
Thanks Isaac,
Yes, I saw that quilt is always mentioned on Debian documentation for
packaging but I don't see the advantage of using it. So I have never
started to set it up just for the purpose of generating the patch
containing the changes on a few files. I think git has more advantages
and it is more relevant to Devuan gitlab so I will learn more about it.
Cheers,
Anto
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