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On Monday 11 August 2003 09:45, Patrick Kursawe wrote: |
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> Too sad I can't remember the name, but a while ago someone discouraged |
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> people from using epatch for simple patches because it's quite some |
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> overkill... |
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> If I have to apply just one or two patches, I don't see why I should not |
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> run patch from the ebuild. |
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too many people just run 'patch < patchfile' without checking for whether it |
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worked correctly ... plus, there are many ways to patch from gz/bzip2 (cat |
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it, uncompress it, pipe it, blah blah blah) ... |
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running 'epatch <patch file>' standardizes patch handling in all ebuilds, plus |
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developers dont have to worry about whether they did it correctly ... i know |
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it took me a while to figure out how to apply a freakin patch over a src base |
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:) |
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as for 'being overkill' ... yes, it has the ability to apply a ton of patches |
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very easily, but if you just give it a patch file, it'll skip all that other |
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code ... plus, if a patch fails, it shows nice output with a log file and |
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everything ... |
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hands down, azarah pwned the patch cmd |
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-mike |
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