Re: Proposed Fedora packaging guideline: Forge-hosted projects packaging automation

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 21:11 +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> > If you have patches that apply at different levels, you can't use
> > it,
> > unless there's a trick I don't know about.
>
> My patches are all -p1 as taught by ancient rpm lore, but sometimes I
> mix patches from other origins and those can be anything.
>
> Thanks for the tip, I will try to remember it

No problem. I find %autosetup so handy that usually if I need to use a
patch from somewhere else that's at a different prefix level, I just
hand-edit that patch to be at level 1 so I can keep using it...