> So if we start from the assumption that we will have a separate, totally > unmodified source .tar.gz, that means we will have at a minimum two files. > > So, what can we have that other file to be? > > I would propose that it be a script (humanly readable, though it doesn't > have to be the prettiest thing around) that knows how to create a > directory, unpack the virgin sources into that directory, and then patch > the sources from patches included in its body. > > Seems to me that this doesn't have to be particularly hard, so I must be > missing something, right?
I don't think you're missing anything. AFAIK, RedHat already has a utility which already works very much like this. David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
