| 1 | This package uses dpatch to manage all modifications to the upstream |
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| 2 | source. Changes are stored in the source package as diffs in |
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| 3 | debian/patches and applied during the build. |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | To get the fully patched source after unpacking the source package, cd |
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| 6 | to the root level of the source package and run: |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | debian/rules patch |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | Removing a patch is as simple as removing its entry from the |
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| 11 | debian/patches/00list file, and please also remove the patch file |
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| 12 | itself. |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | Creating a new patch is done with "dpatch-edit-patch patch XX_patchname" |
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| 15 | where you should replace XX with a new number and patchname with a |
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| 16 | descriptive shortname of the patch. You can then simply edit all the |
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| 17 | files your patch wants to edit, and then simply "exit 0" from the shell |
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| 18 | to actually create the patch file. |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | To tweak an already existing patch, call "dpatch-edit-patch XX_patchname" |
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| 21 | and replace XX_patchname with the actual filename from debian/patches |
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| 22 | you want to use. |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | To clean up afterwards again, "debian/rules unpatch" will do the |
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| 25 | work for you - or you can of course choose to call |
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| 26 | "fakeroot debian/rules clean" all together. |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | --- |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | this documentation is part of dpatch package, and may be used by |
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| 32 | packages using dpatch to comply with policy on README.source. This |
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| 33 | documentation is meant to be useful to users who are not proficient in |
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| 34 | dpatch in doing work with dpatch-based packages. Please send any |
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| 35 | improvements to the BTS of dpatch package. |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | original text by Gerfried Fuchs, edited by Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org> |
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| 38 | 10 Aug 2008. |
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