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Date:      Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:06:02 +0200
From:      Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/mpatrol Makefile ports/devel/mpatrol/files patch-..::..::src::mptrace.c
Message-ID:  <20061103070602.GA65515@qlovarnika.bg.datamax>
In-Reply-To: <454AE6B2.70702@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:50:26PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Vasil Dimov wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:18:50PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >>Vasil Dimov wrote:
> >>>On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:51:40AM +0000, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >>>>sobomax     2006-11-03 03:51:40 UTC
> >>>[...]
> >>>> Added files:
> >>>>   devel/mpatrol/files  patch-..::..::src::mptrace.c=20
> >>>Aargh :-/
> >>>I thought we were supposed to use Tools/scripts/splitpatch.pl for new
> >>>patches.
> >>Why so? We have Tools/scripts/patchtool.py for the few years now.
> >
> >The note I made was about the convention, not the exact tool used. You
> >should read:
> >
> >"I thought we were supposed to use the convention used by
> >Tools/scripts/splitpatch.pl for new patches."
>=20
> Who those "we" are and why exactly they should use that "convention"? Is=
=20
> it official or what?

Those "we" are the ones creating new patches for FreeBSD ports and placing
them in files/ subdirectories.

_They_ should use that convention because it is better to have some
convention than no convention at all.

Please read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html
especially:

"Each patch you wish to apply should be saved into a file named patch-*
where * indicates the pathname of the file that is patched, such as
patch-Imakefile or patch-src-config.h
=2E..
Please only use characters [-+._a-zA-Z0-9] for naming your patches."

I dunno what do you mean by "official" and if you consider the
"Porters Handbook" being "official".

Anyway you can name your patches
patch-@}>-->---ILoveYouMary-src_file.c if you like but you will raise
usless discussions like the current one.

--=20
Vasil Dimov
gro.DSBeerF@dv
%
Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

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