On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 10:45:46AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > What line number changes? You cut a patch against configure, and you're > done. That's it. And you get a big patch containing line numbers. Here's a single line change to configure.ac, and the corresponding patch that generates: http://annexia.org/tmp/configure.patch Note: I'm not even changing the version of autoconf, because really what you mean is I have to track down the exact same version of all autotools that the upstream author used. If you don't do that, then you get a _real_ big patch. > I fail to see any substantive difference between that, and patching any > other file in the source tarball. With a subsequent release, you'll still > have to rebase your existing patch, if the new release did not fix the > original bug. No you don't - often patches continue to work over versions. Not in the case where you're patching a binary of course ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
