[AG-TECH] [Patch] Big Linux fixup patch

Ti Leggett leggett at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Dec 1 17:35:40 CST 2004


I unofficially maintain the ebuilds in that I originally wrote them. If
the patch applies cleanly to the rat we distribute it's pretty trivial
to include. I could easily get it merged and send a new ebuild.

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:24 -0700, Andrew Replogle wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> do you use gentoo at all? I was wondering if you or anyone else knew
> how I might merge these changes into an "ebuild".
> 
> It seems that from the bombed out vic install theres still a dir in
> /var/tmp/portage  called vic with an ag-media directory in there..
> would I patch there? or try to patch from the PORTDIR_OVERLAY where
> the original ebuilds are?
> 
> Does anyone know who maintains the AG gentoo packages/ebuilds? Maybe
> we could get them to merge this in officially?
> 
> from the /var/tmp/portage/vic-1.1.13/work I tried to run a patch -p1 <
> ~andrew/ag2.3-alsa-mbus-rtp-ssl.diff --dry-run
> 
> and right off I get:
> 
> The next patch would delete the file common/confdefs.h,
> which does not exist! 
> 
> among other things.. am I passing the correct paramter p level to
> patch or is this the wrong directory.. I went to look for a confdefs.h
> under common in the ag-media under this path and found none..
> 
> 
> Any info is greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:55:09 +1100, Steve Smith
> <ssmith at vislab.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> > > I'm currently experimenting with maintaining my changes in Darcs*, which
> > > would make experimental branches a lot simpler, and allow developers to
> > > cherry-pick useful patches.
> > 
> > I've now created a Darcs repository, you can pull it with:
> > 
> > darcs get http://people.vislab.usyd.edu.au/~ssmith/accessgrid/ag-media
> > 
> > This has a finer-grained set of patches that are annotated, so that may
> > be more useful for integrating.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Steve
> > --
> > Steve Smith, SysAdmin/Programmer  | "When you have no nails your hammer grows
> > Vislab, University of Sydney      |  restless, and you begin to throw sideways
> > Phone: (02) 9351 5967             |  glances at screws and pieces of string."
> > Email: ssmith at vislab.usyd.edu.au  |                  -- Jarkko Hietaniemi
> > 
> >
> 
-- 
Ti Leggett <leggett at mcs.anl.gov>




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