On Aug 11, 2014, at 3:28 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> Since it came up at Flock: if it's possible to incorporate this recent > experiencing testing Btrfs patches it'd be nice. > > Two patches listed here, one is based on Btrfs integration branch, the other > based on 3.16.0. I didn't realize the original patch was based on integration > branch, which is apparently why it kept failing to apply with rpmbuild (and > hence patch) on kernel-3.16.0-1.fc21.src.rpm. I'm told in this email that git > am would have sorted this out for me. (?) > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg36299.html > > Request 1: if there's a more tolerant patch applying method with git that > could be incorporated, even if it's just a step that converts the patch so > that rpmbuild/patch will eat it, that would be nice. But if it requires a > local git clone of upstream's dev branch, then ignore this part because I'm > not going to do that. I'd sooner ask for a patch that applies onto something > I'm actually going to build. > > Request 2: patches to just get picked up by dropping them somewhere, like > rpmbuild/SOURCES/*.patch always get picked up and applied, rather than > requiring two manually entered entries in kernel.spec per patch. Request 3: Current instructions call for use of yum, yumdownloader, and yum-builddep. Can it be done entirely with dnf? I'm not sure what the dnf equivalent is for yumdownloader or yum-builddep. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
