On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Geir Ove Myhr wrote: >> I wasn't familiar enough >> with quilt to put a patch in debian/patches, but the diff is: > Actually, there's no magic to using quilt. Basically you just copy the > patch into debian/patches/ and append the filename to the end of the > series file. > > There's probably fancy quilt tools, but 99% of the time the above is all > you have to do, particularly for packages like -intel that tend to have > relatively few patches.
I have used quilt like this before. In this case however, it was easier to edit the file by hand, since I had to change a few things and it was easier to do it in context. I thought there was some quilt magic way to extract the patch to debian/patches after editing. Something like $ quilt start editing ... edit the files $ quilt extract patch patchname The other context where I have had to dive into how quilt works was when trying to patch the xorg-edgers xserver-xorg-video-intel. In that case the patches in debian/patches were already applied, so the patches in debian/patches (pre-existing and the one I added) would not be applied at build time. This is a while ago, so it may have changed now. Geir Ove -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
