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From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon 2000-02-14 (18:47), Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> In the future, we should simply think of a way of distributing one big
> patch (sort of what Richard's suggesting)....

This seems to be easy enough using Richard's suggestion of 'ar'
archives for the patches.

Something arb like:

    @if [ -e ${WRKDIR}/patches.ar ]; then \
        mkdir ${WRKDIR}/.patches; \
        (cd ${WRKDIR}/.patches && ar x ${MASTERDIR}/patches.ar); \
        ${ECHO_MSG} "===>  Applying new-style ${OPSYS} patches for
${PKGNAME}" ;
 \
        for i in ${WRKDIR}/.patches/patch-*; do \
            if [ ${PATCH_DEBUG_TMP} = yes ]; then \
                ${ECHO_MSG} "===>   Applying new-style ${OPSYS} patch $$i" ; \
            fi; \
            ${PATCH} ${PATCH_ARGS} < $$i; \
        done; \
    fi;

This is in the do-patch target, before the old-style patches.  This
will also make it easier than a large mega-patch, as it applies
the patches individually (to take care of O'Brien's concern).

The 'ar' archives I generated were plain-text, and we just need
some tools to convert from old-style to new-style automatically
for the people who work on the ports.

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za


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