On 13/07/15 15:01, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 02:39:57PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: >> Hi >> >> When I moved to Fedora after years of doing Debian packages I >> noticed that there is no such thing as patch management when it >> comes to Fedora packages. Everyone is using %patch macro with files >> of random patchlevel (some even use reverse patches). > > While not answering your question about %autosetup, I want to say this > bit isn't quite true. Some packages use an external git repo for > patch management, and create the 'Patch...' lines semi-automatically. > (Similar to, but less weird than: https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit) > > %autosetup only handles half of this use case. TBH it handles the bit > that was already quite easy to do -- ie. invoking 'git am'. > > Copying the patches from git and inserting the Patch lines is the hard > part, and it would be nice to have some standardized tooling for that, > instead of everyone's homebrew 'copy-patches.sh' script. maybe pull `rdopkg update-patches` into `fedpkg` ? cheers, Pádraig. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
