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| author | Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> | 2024-02-09 11:31:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> | 2024-02-09 11:31:57 +0100 |
| commit | 437dfd2ac21dca14a2a5d42928b7534c1be9b589 (patch) | |
| tree | 65c1df42abd583ae342191c48f44ce77a1f24a2d | |
| parent | da0f5f468ad3520b40dfbad41253ec7d61d3eac4 (diff) | |
| download | quilt-437dfd2ac21dca14a2a5d42928b7534c1be9b589.tar.gz | |
setup: Improve the documentation on spec file limitations
The paragraph explaining the limitations on spec files wasn't clear
to all, so reword one statement and add an example to make it
hopefully clearer.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | quilt/setup.in | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/quilt/setup.in b/quilt/setup.in index 3351670..50bd003 100644 --- a/quilt/setup.in +++ b/quilt/setup.in @@ -291,8 +291,14 @@ The setup command is only guaranteed to work properly on spec files where applying all the patches is the last thing done in the %%prep section. This is a design limitation due to the fact that quilt can only operate on patches. If other commands in the %%prep section modify the patched files, -this must happen first, otherwise you won't be able to push the patch +they must come first, otherwise you won't be able to push the patch series. + +For example, a %%prep section where you first unpack a tarball, then +apply patches, and lastly perform a tree-wide string substitution, is +not OK. For \"quilt setup\" to work, it would have to be changed to +unpacking the tarball, then performing the tree-wide string substitution, +and lastly applying the patches. " exit 0 else |