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-From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
-Organization: SuSE Linux AG
-To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
-Subject: Patch scripts 0.9 improvements
-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:39:16 +0100
-
-Hi Andrew,
-
-I still find your patch management scripts very useful. There are a fewg
-small limitations that still keeps me from using them for the SuSEg
-kernel at the moment. Particularly I need a way to have sub-directoriesg
-in patches/ etc.
-
-Please find some improvements and ideas in the attached patch.
-
-Also I think it would be a good idea to keep all (non-temporary)g
-information pertaining to a patch in a single file, rather thang
-splitting into .patch, .txt, .pc files. I have a format like theg
-following in mind. A simple parser for that proposed format is alsog
-attached.
-
- Summary: Test patch
- Author: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
- URL: http://www.suse.de/
-
- %description
- DESCRIPTION
-
- %files
- FILE1
- FILE2
- FILE3
-
- %patch
- PATCH
-
-I think that it doesn't make much sense to keep the .pc files (%filesg
-section) as part of the patch set; they can easily be regenerated fromg
-the .patch files. They are useful while working on a set of patchesg
-though. What do you think of always generating them on the fly, insteadg
-of using import_patch? Then the patches and series files could beg
-checked out from CVS, and patching could start immediately; no cruftg
-would assemble in the .pc files.
-
-Another idea: Maybe all the *~* files could live in their own directoryg
-tree, e.g., under pc/? Then the file names would become more simple,g
-e.g., from file.x~patch to ps/patch/file.x and file.x~dir_patch tog
-dir/patch/file.x, with a smaller chance of clashes. What do you think
-of that?
-
-Cheers,
-Andreas.
-
-
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