On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 3:54 PM clime clime@fedoraproject.org wrote:
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In the rare occasion that I need to make downstream-only changes with patches, I usually just explode the upstream tarball, run "git init", then "git add .", "git commit -m import", apply my changes, and then do "git diff --patch > ../00-my-changes.patch" (if it's just one commit), or "git format-patch -o ../" if there are multiple commits, and then delete the exploded sources again.
In any case, I think this functionality could be included in rpkg/fedpkg...?
If there are no objections, I will open a ticket for this.
It took me a bit to figure it out but I use quilt instead. It doesn't perfectly integrate with rpmbuild/dist-git but it works well enough.
There are two big nits I have... 1. If one patch fails to apply it stops there, so I have to go in and fix/refresh it, then back out, rm -rf the source directory, and re-quilt setup <spec>. 2. If you don't have any patches yet they are only generated in <src>/patches and not created in the dist-git directory.
Thanks, Richard