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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: patches.gentoo.org
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:05:21
Message-Id: 200410121804.16982.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: patches.gentoo.org by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Tuesday 12 October 2004 03:09 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > 1. developer creates an ebuild which needs a patch
3
4 umm, just so everyone knows and doesnt forget, dont post plain text files !
5 always compress them so they're in binary form
6
7 ive handled bugs in the past where plain text files were posted in SRC_URI and
8 the mirrors were so kind as to convert the CRLF stuff while transfering in
9 ASCII mode thus breaking digests
10
11 so, dont do it !
12 -mike
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