[Mageia-dev] rpm macro help! %apply_patches

Thu Dec 1 14:25:47 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 01/12/11 10:41 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:28, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> So I guess an rpmmacro guru is needed.
+> 
+> I think we can have an option quite easily but I don't want to learn lua :)
+> 
+> %apply_patches %{lua: keys = {}; for i, p in ipairs(patches) do
+> print(rpm.expand("%{_patch} -s -p1 -b --suffix " ..
+> string.format(".%04d", patches_num[p]) .. "
+> --fuzz=%{_default_patch_fuzz} -i " .. p .. "\\n")) end }
+
+
+Incidentally, the approach taken in Fedora is a bit different:
+
+The do the following in the spec:
+
+git init
+git config user.email "devel at redhat.com"
+git config user.name "Fedora SPEC"
+git add .
+git commit -a -q -m "%{version} baseline."
+git am -p1 %{patches}
+
+
+On the face of it this is a bit ugly, but the reason to do this is that
+it allow patches that deal with renames and file mode changes to be
+applied too.
+
+So perhaps we should have a %git_apply_patches macro that does the above
+too?
+
+Col
+
+-- 
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