Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 02:10:08PM +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: But, aside from the pbuilder specifics: Is there any policy, best practice, or LSB scheme for extending an existing package? Are there any hooks to re-apply changes to an existing package after it has been updated? It definitively

Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-26 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 25.12.2010 20:18, schrieb Michael Banck: Why can't this be part of pbuilder itself? Did your patches got rejected by the pbuilder author and if so, what was his rationale? Maybe if he thinks they should not be part of pbuilder, they shouldn't be part of another package either. I

Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:10:08 +0100 Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de wrote: But, aside from the pbuilder specifics: Is there any policy, best practice, or LSB scheme for extending an existing package? Are there any hooks to re-apply changes to an existing package after it has been updated?

Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-26 Thread Luk Claes
On 12/26/2010 02:10 PM, Malte Forkel wrote: Am 25.12.2010 20:18, schrieb Michael Banck: Why can't this be part of pbuilder itself? Did your patches got rejected by the pbuilder author and if so, what was his rationale? Maybe if he thinks they should not be part of pbuilder, they shouldn't

Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-25 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi (and happy hollidays)! I've written a couple of extensions to pbuilder. When my package gets installed, a file from the pbuilder package (/usr/sbin/pbuilder) must be modified for my extension to work. I'm looking for the proper way to apply a patch to that file. I would like to patch rather

Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 13:19 +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: Hi (and happy hollidays)! I've written a couple of extensions to pbuilder. When my package gets installed, a file from the pbuilder package (/usr/sbin/pbuilder) must be modified for my extension to work. I'm looking for the proper way to

Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-25 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 25.12.2010 13:25, schrieb Ben Hutchings: I've written a couple of extensions to pbuilder. When my package gets installed, a file from the pbuilder package (/usr/sbin/pbuilder) must be modified for my extension to work. I'm looking for the proper way to apply a patch to that file. [...]

Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 07:53:41PM +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: Am 25.12.2010 13:25, schrieb Ben Hutchings: If you cannot accomplish what you want using an existing hook then perhaps you should ask the pbuilder maintainer to add a new hook. Well, a new hook probably won't do. I've written to