From a5e35bc7ef515e75a9399d0c62a8292d0a63e2c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Gruenbacher Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:44:28 +0000 Subject: Move documentation to doc/ --- doc/consider-for-docs-3.mail | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/consider-for-docs-3.mail (limited to 'doc/consider-for-docs-3.mail') diff --git a/doc/consider-for-docs-3.mail b/doc/consider-for-docs-3.mail new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4672ae2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/consider-for-docs-3.mail @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +From: Andreas Gruenbacher +Organization: SuSE Linux AG +To: Andrew Morton +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 + 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. + + +[ Attachments removed ] + -- cgit