Re: Notice of intent: patching glibc

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On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 10:28:19PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 01:20:19PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Is there a specific reason glibc does this?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Can it not have a set of patches, one per change, as is usual practice?
> 
> Fedora glibc sources are from git, and the bit diff is just generated
> diff between the upstream snapshot and corresponding Fedora snapshot,
> sans a few Fedora-only directories (which are packaged as extra tarball).

That's not a reason.

Why not keep the Fedora branch in git and make patches from it:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/nice-rpm-git-patch-management-trick/

This method is quite probably simpler than the one you're using now.

Rich.

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