<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-07-14 10:24 GMT+02:00 Mikolaj Izdebski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mizdebsk@redhat.com" target="_blank">mizdebsk@redhat.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 07/13/2015 02:39 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:<br>
> When I moved to Fedora after years of doing Debian packages I noticed<br>
> that there is no such thing as patch management when it comes to Fedora<br>
> packages. Everyone is using %patch macro with files of random patchlevel<br>
> (some even use reverse patches).<br>
><br>
> %autosetup was created to handle that but probably less than 5% of<br>
> packages use it. Why?<br>
><br>
> Is it because no one told that it exists? Or maybe because<br>
> implementation has some issues which no one wants to fix? Or other (I<br>
> exclude laziness of package maintainers)?<br>
<br>
</span>I also like how Debian patches their packages (stardardization: quilt,<br>
DEP-3, patch tracker web app, ...) and I was initially quite eager about<br>
%autosetup/%autopatch, but it turned out to be unusable for me.<br>
<br>
I maintain most of patches as commits in private branches of upstream<br>
git repos and generate them with "git format-patch<br>
<latest-release-tag>". %autosetup and %autopatch don't work with patches<br>
generated this way, while %patch does.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Works for me, you need to tell %autosetup that you're using git with the option -S git<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Another (lesser) reason is increased difficulty of backporting spec<br>
files to work with older rpm-build, such as when creating software<br>
collections for older OS.<br>
<br>
I use %autopatch in one of my packages (eclipse-m2e-core) so that I<br>
don't forget how it works (or doesn't work :)<br>
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Mikolaj Izdebski<br>
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