On Sun January 6 2008, Ian Kent wrote:
Sometimes when trying to solve a problem I need to add a patch to a
package, say kernel, and do a build (probably a scratch build) to test
and possibly have the reporter use it for testing as well.
So can someone tell me what the proper procedure is for creating a
private branch for a package in Fedora?
The easiest way I know, is to check out the branch you want to modify in a
separate directory, patch, run "make srpm" and make a scratch build
with "koji build --scratch dist-f9 *.src.rpm".
For patching I begin to use
- make prep
- then go into the source directory
- run a cp -a file $file.$description on files I want to patch
- then edit $file
- go back to the directory where the spec is in
- run make patch SUFFIX=$description (or maybe mae patch SUFFIX=.$description)
- add the patch to the spec with %patchXX -b .$description
When the patch needs to adjusted, after running "make prep", there is already
a $file.$description, and $file is patched, and a "make rediff
SUFFIX=$description" keeps the comments before the first diff in the patch
file.
Regards,
Till