On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 03:20:12PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > 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` ? Yup, something like that. Is anyone maintaining fedpkg now? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
