On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 01:59:49PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: > Lourival, Guilherme > > (CCing tech-userlevel@) > > In the past we updated Lua by doing a vendor import and reapplying > our patches. It's doable, but as you have seen, cvs makes that > stuff not strictly easy... > > Furthermore I think that we always lack behind, Lua 5.3.3 with 3 > bug fixes applied would be current. > > Would it speed up thinks if we just applied the diffs from PUC Rio > and commiting them, leaving out the vendor import dance? Would > that have any negative side effects? What do others on > tech-userlevel think?
If you do it wrong, it just makes it that much harder the next time. There are reasons for all these "dances". -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
