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Re: patches to vendor source trees - discussion
As a not a maintainer quite yet - Might put my comment forth anyway...
I am closer to favouring 1 then 3 ... and not 2 ...
but neither is how I would naturally think of things... - thats assuming
that the package is called cygwin that is being talked about in #1
#4 - which is like #1 other then difference stated.
-src tarball contains
cygwin/<pristine tarball, without renaming or repacking>
cygwin/<patchfile>
(possibly other stuff in cygwin/, if necessary - post install
scripts come to mind)
cygwin/<build script or makefile>
newly generated bin tarballs placed in cygwin/BUILT
newly generated src tarballs placed in cygwin/BUILT
The process of building would probably require the construction of some
other directories, build scripts choice and also its perogative to clean
them up - and yes its sort of sounding rather makefileish ... that way you
can just patch ths source only ... or patch and compile ... or patch compile
package-bin ... or patch compile install[-strip] and finally clean
Not sure what the point of generating src tarballs is... but I left that
there...
I personally think that 3 files in one directory isnt getting too crowded...
and that all the extra directorys seem like overkill.
Then again - I also dont care about things looking like RPM or pkg
formats...
<snip the lot>
if I appear to have no clue ... thats understandable ;)
Anyway about it I can see that I am actually going to have to write proper
patches - rather then just keeping a copy of hacked files :P - all for the
best though...
Gareth Pearce