On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:24:58PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > I need to make a minor edit to one of the sources of a package. I want the > sources on my machine in a state so that emacs will recognize the files are > under git control and act accordingly, so I can do my edits and use emacs > vc-mode stuff to commit, diff, etc. I tried using fedpkg clone + fedpkg > sources. That just gets me the .tar.gz + patches. I tried fedpkg prep. > That doesn't seem to work because it unpacks the source under a > subdirectory. Any hints? You can't do it directly with the Fedora git setup, because Fedora git just stores a 'sources' file which is a list of tarballs and their MD5 sums. The actual tarballs are stored in a lookaside cache somewhere else. Nevertheless, several people have the same problem as you: at least to my knowledge the kernel, libvirt and libguestfs. These packages are now using git to manage patches, and then generating the Fedora git setup as the last step. For libguestfs I'm doing it manually. I have my own git repo which is a clone of the upstream libguestfs git repo. In that git repo I have the base stable version (eg. 1.4.3) plus cherry-picked patches on top of that. I use 'git rebase' when a new stable version comes out, and 'git format-patch' to generate the actual patches which go into Fedora git. At the moment I hand-edit the spec file to update the list of patches, but eventually the plan would be to generate the list of patches in the spec file too. The result looks something like this: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libguestfs.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/f13/master;hb=refs/heads/f13/master (Sorry, but the git repo I'm using to manage the patches is not yet public). libvirt is looking into writing tools to make this process more manageable. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
