Notice of intent: patching glibc

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Fri Sep 2 20:28:19 UTC 2011


On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 01:20:19PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Is there a specific reason glibc does this?

Yes.

> Can it not have a set of patches, one per change, as is usual practice?

Fedora glibc sources are from git, and the bit diff is just generated
diff between the upstream snapshot and corresponding Fedora snapshot,
sans a few Fedora-only directories (which are packaged as extra tarball).

	Jakub


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