Dan Melomedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > You should be able to apply the whole qmail-ldap patch, find out what
> > patches are included that you don't like, download those patches, and
> > back them out with the -R flag to patch.
>
> This is not what I want. I want to easily add other patches to
> qmail-ldap patch (the LDAP part only) with as little conflicts
> as possible. I understand qmail-ldap is distributed as one large patch
> for convenience, but it would have been so much easier otherwise.
The problem is that resolving patch dependencies is a huge pain. If
qmail-ldap were distributed as a single patch, other patches designed
for vanilla qmail often wouldn't work with it. Instead, everybody who
wanted those patches would have to try to apply them, find the errors,
and correct them.
Instead, the original authors decided to combine a bunch of common
patches into one. The situation is now backwards; if you *don't* want
some patches, you have to reverse-apply them, find the errors, and
correct them.
Because more people want the pile-o-patches than don't want them, this
method causes the least pain for the least number of people. But what
you are asking for is reasonable and useful; if you manage to get the
patch boiled down to just the essentials, please make it available.
I'm sure there are others who would find it useful.
I don't think anybody here is going to do the work of backing out
these patches for you, since nobody here seems interested in having
this "distilled" qmail-ldap but you. You're going to have to do it
yourself, although I and probably the rest of this list will be happy
to help you sort things out. It's going to be a lot of work, though.
Maybe if you can post exactly what you are trying to do, somebody can
point you in a different direction that's simpler.
Either way, best of luck!
----ScottG.
