On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:14:17 -0400 Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the patches are conditional then nobody else is affected anyway.
And that's the issue -- this claim is incorrect. With conditional patching everyone is affected. A common example used to be selinux patches that were applied with 'use selinux && epatch blah'. When maintaining a package with one of these and doing a version bump, one had the following options: * Remove the conditional patch, probably breaking selinux * Leave the conditional patch, probably breaking selinux * Not doing the bump until someone checked that the patch was still correct (applying correctly is not sufficient), which usually meant waiting until Redhat did an updated patch, which usually meant waiting for a very long time. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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