generating patches for debian packages

2007-04-12 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
I am looking for some tricks for generating patches for the debian source packages. Let's say I download the source of a package foo apt-get source foo Now I change somefiles inside foo. How can I easily generate a patch so that I can send it to bts/maintainer etc.,? Currently what I do is

Re: generating patches for debian packages

2007-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:43:51 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I am looking for some tricks for generating patches for the debian source packages. Take a look at interdiff and/or debdiff (in package devscripts). http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/AdvancedBuildingTips has some hints, too.

Re: generating patches for debian packages

2007-04-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Heya, any easy way? Are there any books which deal with practical issues such as these? a lot of packages already use dpatch or quilt, which makes adding new patches to the build process pretty easy. If they're not used yet - adding the neccessary stuff to debian/rules is well explained in

Re: generating patches for debian packages

2007-04-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Kamaraju S Kusumanchi may or may not have written... I am looking for some tricks for generating patches for the debian source packages. Let's say I download the source of a package foo apt-get source foo Now I change somefiles inside foo. How can I easily generate a patch