looks like its Jia Tan's AI Cousin On February 24, 2025 9:15:35 AM UTC, "Björn Persson" <Bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Mon, 2025-02-24 at 11:59 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: >> > On 24/2/25 11:07, Jian Peng wrote: >> > > Dear Fedora Development Team, >> > > I hope this email finds you well. >> > > I have submitted a bug report on Fedora's Bugzilla regarding an issue >> > > with the Aide project (ID: 2346091 >> > > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346091>), which involves >> > > a patch fix and modification for the project. >> > > As I have not received a response yet, I would like to follow up >> > > through this mailing list. I am seeking further assistance or guidance >> > > regarding the progress of the patch and the steps for handling it. >> > > If replying to Bugzilla is not convenient for you, I’ll briefly >> > > summarize the issue here: >> > >> > What is it you are asking to be done? >> > >> > >> > It's easy enough to verify the patch gets applied and it is a revert. >> > >> > The package builds fine as it is. >> > >> > So I don't know what you are asking. >> >> I don't think it's that simple, in fact it's pretty weird. There is no >> 'reversion' going on. The patch does not change anything. > >The patch is first applied by %autosetup and then immediately reverted >by %patch -R. The result is that nothing is changed. > >If the second patching is removed, so that the patch actually takes >effect, then compilation fails because "num" is unused in one place and >undefined in another, as Jian Peng pointed out. > >> I suspect what's going on is that patch -R -b does something a bit odd >> in this case - it applies the patch *to the 'backup' file* not the >> original. > >%autosetup doesn't make a backup, but %patch is instructed to make one >with the suffix ".verbose", so then conf_eval.c.verbose contains a copy >of what the code briefly was between the two patchings. > >The same commit that added the patch file also added the reversion (and >an untrue changelog entry), so there is no point in the Git history >where the patch had any effect: > >https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/aide/c/a003ad04cf2504564c0497c9cce5e5aecb9d601b > >The whole thing is utterly useless. Was the patch produced by a >language model, or what? > >Björn Persson akritrim® Intelligence™ -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
