Benjamin Reed said: : Daniel Macks wrote: : : > Patch-tracker #768801. : : Normally when I'm porting something, I'll put together a basic info : file, go to another window, build it, and wait for it to die. I go in, : make some changes, and generate a patch: : : diff -uNr foo-pristine foo > /path/too/foo.patch : : Then I build again, and start over. If there's something wrong, I run : the diff again. : : If patches are embedded in the info file, every time I want to generate : a patch I need to delete the patch at the end of the info, close the : info file, generate the patch, and then re-edit the info file to make : other changes.
No reason you can't still do this, and treat the embedding as a last- minute detail after the whole package is working and ready to go. Then just change %a to %A and stuff the .patch onto the end of .info. I agree that it makes generating the *next* revision an extra step or two (re-change %A->%a, rip off the old patch) unless you remembered to keep the parent file. : Not only that, but now we're relying on patch not accidentally thinking : anything in the info file is a directive to start a patch (I don't know : if it's been done, but I can imagine bits of diff being part of a : "DescPort" comment or something similar). My previous approach was to have the new percent-expand yield a shell command that would give the patch data on STDOUT, so then one could PatchScript: %[newthing] | patch -p1 and let fink snip off all of the .info before the stop-codon. But I didn't like having a weird new percent type (command vs. string) and in particular it would be less of a drop-in replacement for a .patch file. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
