Frank Küster wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Out of curiosity, does quilt have a mechanism similar to dpatch that >>allows you to treat shell scripts as "patches"? My inability to find >>such a feature was the main reason I opted for dpatch over quilt in the >>Cernlib package -- I needed to move a bunch of files around within the >>source, and doing so with a pure patch system will result in huge and >>fragile diff files (two copies of each file to be moved, which breaks if >>upstream changes any of them!). But now it sounds like I'm missing out >>on some features by not using quilt. > > I don't think that quilt offers this, at least not in a straightforward > way. > Why can't you separate the moving around of files from the patching? > > patch-stamp: > quilt push -a > debian/movefilearound
I guess in principle I could, but it's nice to have the step where the file move takes place be right next to the step where I edit the Imakefiles (sadly, Cernlib uses imake) to suit. E.g., this file is a script to move some files around: debian/patches/702-fix-packlib-mathlib-circular-mess.sh.dpatch and this patch fixes the Imakefiles appropriately: debian/patches/702-patch-Imakefiles-for-packlib-mathlib.dpatch > But looking at its implementation, maybe this could easily be changed, > just add an additional check whether the "patch" has a shebang line at > the start, and execute it instead of calling patch. Hmm, I will look into this when I have time and maybe file a wishlist bug on quilt with a patch. Thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
