[Mageia-dev] rpm macro help! %apply_patches

Thu Dec 1 14:24:03 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Jani Välimaa at 01/12/11 12:31 did gyre and gimble:
+> 2011/12/1 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>:
+>> On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:19:11 +0000
+>> Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>
+>>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 09:58, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>>> Or another suggestion..... who actually uses these backup files? Perhaps
+>>>> they can just be dropped completely?
+>>>
+>>> I use them when updating patches
+>>
+>> So do I.
+>>
+> 
+> Me too.
+
+Interesting. I always tend to do something more joined up as having a
+single patch fail when it touches multiple files makes the
+reconstructing the patch a bit more problematic where as a git rebase
+over the sources is generally much quicker.
+
+But each to their own - backup files are useful you've proven that much :)
+
+An option (or different macros) is needed.
+
+
+Col
+
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