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On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:35:40 -0700 |
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Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 04/15/2012 01:16 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: |
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> > Right now we have support in some packages for user patches - those being |
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> > patches dropped into /etc/portage/patches/pkgname/ - which are automatically |
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> > applied. Because this feature is implemented by epatch_user() in |
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> > eutils.eclass, it is only available for ebuilds that inherit eutils and |
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> > explicitly call epatch_user or inherit another eclass that calls it in an |
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> > exported phase (eg. base). The end result is a very inconsistent experience, |
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> > where user patches may or may not work not only on a package-by-package |
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> > basis, but ebuild-by-ebuild. |
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> > Is there any reason why this couldn't just be done in the package manager, |
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> > making user patches available for all ebuilds without code changes? |
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> Funtoo has support for FEATURES=localpatch, which does the epatch_user |
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> thing before src_prepare. I think it should really go after src_prepare, |
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> in order to apply patches after those that src_prepare may apply |
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> (avoiding possible conflicts). |
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I agree. |
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> The reason that Funtoo's FEATURES=localpatch applies patches before |
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> src_prepare is that it's common for eautoreconf to be called inside |
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> src_prepare, and applying patches after src_prepare can create a need to |
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> call eautoreconf a second time. |
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Well that could waste a bit of time but is pretty much harmless, no? And the |
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existing usages of epatch_user (other than autotools-utils) don't eautoreconf |
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anyways, nor should they in case the package doesn't use autotools. |
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