On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 20:24 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > I ask it here as a favour, please avoid using absolute paths in the > filenames of patched files. This mean avoid having stuff like > > --- foobar/foo.c > +++ /tmp/foobar/foobar.c > > This tends to break from time to time, and I had to fix at least three > packages since I started my treewide build for these problems. I already > asked Zac about adding such a check on repoman, but in the mean time I'd > like to ask here for people to verify their packages. > > I actually am culprit of doing this some time ago but I learnt my lesson > the hard way :P My suggestion for everybody else is to use quilt when > you need to write patches. > > And if you have patches with the filenames like I shown above, you can > change it the git way so that it becomes: > > --- a/foobar/foo.c > +++ b/foobar/foo.c > > and the problem is usually solved.
Could you please expand on what the actual problem is for reference, having never seen them fail myself or hear any fail for others? -- Mart Raudsepp Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio
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