Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >> I am posting this to two lists because Vim is common to both. Of > course, discussion and opinions, if any, could be different in each one. >> >> While some softwares are rushing new versions even weekly, others > stick to a "main" one and leave the minor versions/corrections in their > repositories to be checked out with git or other softwares, and this is > the case of Vim and MPlayer. >> >> I have noticed that most distributions are changing to upgrade these > more often, perhaps monthly. > >> Some examples with Vim: >> >> *buntu 7.3.429 >> ArchLinux 7.3.515 >> Fedora 7.3.515 >> Gentoo 7.3.515 >> Mageia 7.3.444 >> Mandriva devel 7.3.486 >> openSUSE Factory 7.3.456 >> >> Sometimes, they call it version 7.3 "correction-xxx". >> >> MPlayer has already changed. What do you think about Vim in LFS >> and/or BLFS, with a monthly source in Anduin? > > What would be an easier way to maintain these type of changes would be > to update a patch that is the difference between the base package and > the svn package. The update would then amount to adding a new patch to > the packages repository and changing the patch number in the book. > > Note that changes to vim would need to happen in both LFS and BLFS.
You can try: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/vim/vim-7.3-fixes-524.patch Apply with: patch -Np1 -i ../vim-7.3-fixes-524.patch and then build normally. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
