On Sunday 05 July 2009 07:45:46 am Sam Varshavchik wrote: > *snip* > > With a subsequent release, you'll still > have to rebase your existing patch, if the new release did not fix the > original bug. As I understand, rpm's default settings now reject fuzz in > patch files, so you'll just have to do it, now. And since the likelyhood of > configure changing in a new release is no different than any other source > file getting changed, on average, believing that some work can be saved > just by choosing to patch a different file, then the one that really needs > to be patched, is somewhat naive. The problem is that configure scripts are not written by a human, but generated by autoconf. It is easy to make small changes to configure.ac and generate large changes in configure. This makes it easier to rebase patches against configure.ac. Regards, -- Conrad Meyer <cemeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
