On 08/20/2016 20:22, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> On 08/20/2016 05:13 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> It looks like that sometime around Linux 3.15, some kind of a quirk was
>> introduced where a patch that contains the removal of a symlink followed by
>> the
>> addition of a file with the
On 08/20/2016 05:13 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> All,
>
> It looks like that sometime around Linux 3.15, some kind of a quirk was
> introduced where a patch that contains the removal of a symlink followed by
> the
> addition of a file with the same name as the symlink causes patch's --dry-run
>
All,
It looks like that sometime around Linux 3.15, some kind of a quirk was
introduced where a patch that contains the removal of a symlink followed by the
addition of a file with the same name as the symlink causes patch's --dry-run
phase to fail, which kills 'epatch'. See Bug #507656.
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