[parted-devel] Re: Red Hat Parted Package

[Otavio Salvador]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

> This only works well if I wanted to have one giant patch against the
> released version of parted.  We don't do that in RPM packages.  I have
> patches that are by feature or bug so that other people can
> selectively pick and choose what they want.

Yes, I know you have and we have it too.

> The old Debian way made that hard, but the new Debian way of having
> debian/patches/* works more like what we have.  But since you track
> that patch collection as a big diff against the released version of
> parted, using git is easy.  We go about it from the other direction,
> so I don't think using git is going to work for me to track patches.

But the idea is to use git to track it down. Currently we're using
dpatch for parted patch management but I'm not sure if it's the easier
way to share patches between vendors. Maybe doing it thought GIT would
be better and easier to all of us.

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