[gentoo-dev] Please avoid absolute paths in patched filenames

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.

Thanks,
-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/