[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#483378: Bug#483378: nvidia-kernel-source: wrong patch direction?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:39:28AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> Package: nvidia-kernel-source
> Version: 169.12-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> In the latest 2 versions, the xen and other patches seem to be applied
> in the wrong direction.  This is from a fresh rm -rf modules/ ; tar
> xvf ... ; make-kpkg clean ....  with both the clean and configure
> steps wanting to apply the patch in the wrong direction.  If I confirm
> both the clean and configure patches to assume -R, then it builds
> successfully (otherwise it bails because the patch step has failed).
> Then because the patch has then been reversed by the time configure
> finishes, the actual build of the binary modules will want to apply
> the patch in the direction given, without assuming -R.  Haven't
> verified whether it runs yet.

I think the correct thing to do is to apply the patches in the package
build step and not try to do it in the clean/configure steps at all.
It's simply a mess to do it there.

Clean should do it in reverse if at all.

The rules already has a place to apply patches while building the module
source package, which works well, why are we not using it?

-- 
Len Sorensen