[Quilt-dev] Re: quilt

[Peter Braam]

It also appears to break pop somewhat, so you are wise to hold off :(

Wang can probably have another look at this.

- Peter -

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 01:39:42PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> The file quilt/fork.in is missing.
> 
> The patch adds a copy of .pc/applied-patches (the list of applied patchers) 
> that include the path names to the patches. I don't like this approach, it 
> allows inconsistencies between the two files. Would Tom rework this to store 
> the path names directly in .pc/applied-patches? This will require a few 
> changes in other scripts, but the result will be better.
> 
> Somebody should rework the patch name mangling inside the scripts from 
> passing 
> the mangled name to passing the full name between the scripts. I am planning 
> to eventually do that, but I have no time in the foreseeable future. Maybe 
> you or Tom wants to give that a try.
> 
> The $"blah" syntax in the scripts is for internationalization. (Weird to have 
> i18n shell scripts, isn't it?)
> 
> 
> On Friday 25 July 2003 20:00, Peter Braam wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > I'm attaching the first patch from Tom Wang with some of the new features
> > we discussed.  This one includes:
> >
> >  - quilt fork
> >  - more careful checking on pop  (Tom: update quilt help pop for this
> > please) - minor fix to the rpm spec file (it works like this on rh9)
> >  - disable install of README in install target, because the RPM won't build
> >    otherwise on rh9 - a better fix is needed
> >
> > This patch applied to CVS as of this morning.
> >
> > Would you mind a flag to quilt setup that points at a rpm.spec/series file
> > and patches directory and creates the two symlinks locally in the working
> > area, or is that supported already?
> 
> You mean this?
> 
>       $ cd $WORKING_DIR
>       $ ln -s $PATCHES_DIR patches
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas.
- Peter -