Re: patch naming scheme.

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On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:59 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 10 October 2008 21:23:34 Dave Airlie wrote:
> > nvidia-agp I apologise for, it just came with that name from upstream, I
> > meant to rename it to at least agp-nvidia.
> >
> > I don't suppose we could use a subdirectory called patches if we want to
> > keep ls clean.. this being the 21st century :)
> 
> I vaguely recall trying a test implementation of this at one point, and if I 
> recall correctly, it made rpm very unhappy. However, its been a while, maybe 
> this is doable with the latest rpm and/or maybe my recollections are wrong. A 
> patches subdir would certainly clean things up considerably, and then I think 
> a constant patch name prefix matters a lot less (certainly still could stand 
> to apply some standard formula to naming, of course, but it wouldn't impact 
> tab completion near as much anymore).

rpm still doesn't like this.  Adding it isn't _that_ hard, last time I
looked, and it's not like it introduces any new collision opportunities
for people who use the system-wide %_sourcedir.  Probably worth running
this past rpm-maint@ though.

- ajax
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