On Sun January 6 2008, Ian Kent wrote: > Sometimes when trying to solve a problem I need to add a patch to a > package, say kernel, and do a build (probably a scratch build) to test > and possibly have the reporter use it for testing as well. > > So can someone tell me what the proper procedure is for creating a > private branch for a package in Fedora? The easiest way I know, is to check out the branch you want to modify in a separate directory, patch, run "make srpm" and make a scratch build with "koji build --scratch dist-f9 *.src.rpm". For patching I begin to use - make prep - then go into the source directory - run a cp -a file $file.$description on files I want to patch - then edit $file - go back to the directory where the spec is in - run make patch SUFFIX=$description (or maybe mae patch SUFFIX=.$description) - add the patch to the spec with %patchXX -b .$description When the patch needs to adjusted, after running "make prep", there is already a $file.$description, and $file is patched, and a "make rediff SUFFIX=$description" keeps the comments before the first diff in the patch file. Regards, Till
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