Re: Proposed Fedora packaging guideline: Forge-hosted projects packaging automation
by nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net
De: "Adam Williamson"
On Sat, 2017-12-09 at 13:34 +0100, nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net wrote:
>> I don't have a good history with %autosetup :) It tends to hate the patches I produce.
> Did you know you still can/have to pass it a prefix level? That tripped
> me up for a while. For most cases, you want:
> %autosetup -p1
That's probably what I needed last time, but it was faster to add a %patch line than to investigate :). I find out nowadays there are lots of things I could do better if only I had the time to look them up.
> If you have patches that apply at different levels, you can't use it,
> unless there's a trick I don't know about.
My patches are all -p1 as taught by ancient rpm lore, but sometimes I mix patches from other origins and those can be anything.
Thanks for the tip, I will try to remember it
Regards,
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Nicolas Mailhot