Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Several packages are using git for patch management. eg: > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/erlang.git/tree/erlang.spec#n46 > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/tree/libguestfs.spec?h=f20#n22 > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/qemu.git/tree/ > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ocaml.git/tree/ocaml.spec#n16 Ewww, we need packaging guidelines banning this bizarre practice. I can see using git-am if you're backporting upstream patches from upstream git (though patch and thus %patchN is usually good enough for that, too), but for Fedora-specific patches, it's really the wrong tool for the job. > Some of these packages have invented home-brewed methods to generate > the Patch lines in the spec file, eg: > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/erlang.git/tree/otp-get-patches.sh > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/tree/copy-patches.sh?h=f20 Ewww! Yuck! Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
