Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Marc Kleine-Budde <[email protected]> schrieb: >> Enrico Weigelt wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> >>> I'd like to automatically import the ptxdist patches into git >>> repos (applying them as separate commits ontop the upstream). >>> >>> My miggest problem currently is finding out the right upstream >>> tag (is everything based on the release tarballs ?) and handle >>> updates of the patches themselves. >> yes - everything is based on tarballs. > > Is there any inherent mapping between upstream version and > patch directories ? Or could we maybe introduce some kind > of normalization ?
The patch dir corresponds to the name of the directory a pacakge
extracts to. If using autotools this equals to the name of the tarball
without the ".tar.{bz2,gz}".
> Any suggestion on how to handle patch updates ?
We use our git to track the change of the patches in ptxdist. However if
you want to keep the patches together with the upstream I suggest to use
something like http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/
cheers, Marc
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