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Mart Raudsepp yazmış:
> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 20:24 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
>> I ask it here as a favour, please avoid using absolute paths in the
>> filenames of patched files. This mean avoid having stuff like
>>
>> --- foobar/foo.c
>> +++ /tmp/foobar/foobar.c
>>
>> This tends to break from time to time, and I had to fix at least three
>> packages since I started my treewide build for these problems. I already
>> asked Zac about adding such a check on repoman, but in the mean time I'd
>> like to ask here for people to verify their packages.
>>
>> I actually am culprit of doing this some time ago but I learnt my lesson
>> the hard way :P My suggestion for everybody else is to use quilt when
>> you need to write patches.
>>
>> And if you have patches with the filenames like I shown above, you can
>> change it the git way so that it becomes:
>>
>> --- a/foobar/foo.c
>> +++ b/foobar/foo.c
>>
>> and the problem is usually solved.
> 
> Could you please expand on what the actual problem is for reference,
> having never seen them fail myself or hear any fail for others?
> 
> 

See bug #237667 and dev-thread
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_777d416bb082a45b0e4848d8db5bfec8.xml

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Sincerely,
Serkan KABA
Gentoo/Java
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