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

[Andrew Replogle]

What can I do to help? 

If you'd like me to test to see if the patch applies cleanly I'd be
happy to (I might need a little direction as I've only ever patched
kernels). Does it make a difference that I'm on amd64 ?

Andrew =]

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:35:40 -0600, Ti Leggett <leggett at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 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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