Hey Enrico, please don't drop the mailinglist from CC!
Enrico Weigelt wrote: >>> 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. > > uhm, that's bad. requires the import system to know all these > directories before patching. naturally it knows some canonical > package name and works upon the an git tree coming from the > upstream's vcs, which of course does not contain such an > prefix directory (as found in tarballs). what about just taking the name of the tarball then and see where it breaks. >>> 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/ > > I doubt that will help me in importing ptxdist patches ontop > upstream release tags ;-o You asked about handling of patch updates :P Marc -- Pengutronix e.K. | Marc Kleine-Budde | Industrial Linux Solutions | Phone: +49-231-2826-924 | Vertretung West/Dortmund | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | http://www.pengutronix.de |
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