-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mart Raudsepp yazmış: > On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 20:24 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: >> I ask it here as a favour, please avoid using absolute paths in the >> filenames of patched files. This mean avoid having stuff like >> >> --- foobar/foo.c >> +++ /tmp/foobar/foobar.c >> >> This tends to break from time to time, and I had to fix at least three >> packages since I started my treewide build for these problems. I already >> asked Zac about adding such a check on repoman, but in the mean time I'd >> like to ask here for people to verify their packages. >> >> I actually am culprit of doing this some time ago but I learnt my lesson >> the hard way :P My suggestion for everybody else is to use quilt when >> you need to write patches. >> >> And if you have patches with the filenames like I shown above, you can >> change it the git way so that it becomes: >> >> --- a/foobar/foo.c >> +++ b/foobar/foo.c >> >> and the problem is usually solved. > > Could you please expand on what the actual problem is for reference, > having never seen them fail myself or hear any fail for others? > >
See bug #237667 and dev-thread http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_777d416bb082a45b0e4848d8db5bfec8.xml - -- Sincerely, Serkan KABA Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkiSXEACgkQRh6X64ivZaJfgACfbA/wjlEoldGyZUaDev0jXyng /SkAoIHS1c8x2bAHbeFDO+r4M8NIK++R =+Ho/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
