On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:51:29PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:51:01AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > Yep, I've done the same thing for all the packages I maintain in Fedora > > and RHEL too. It makes maintaining RPMs soo much easier, particularly > > when you have lots of patches to manage. The script I use is > > > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libvirt-sandbox.git/tree/update-patches.pl > > Cool. > > It would be nice to improve the script to read "References:" or > "Addresses:" lines from the git commit messages and use the lines as > comments for Patch%d: in the SPEC file. Something like: > > # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850355 > Patch123: 0001-foo-bar.patch > > Maybe it would be also possible to use the URL to ask bugzilla for > bug Id and Subject and then generate SPEC %changelog :-) The erlang patches script also reads various information from the commit comments too. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
