Re: Call for testing: patch-o-matic-ng

[Herve Eychenne <rv@wallfire.org>]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:45:46PM +0100, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:

> Hi Herve,

> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Herve Eychenne wrote:

> > I think the convention of Debian Packages files with a line like
> > Depends: zope, python2.1-popy (>= 2.0.8), python2.1-popy (<< 2.0.9)
> > would just be perfect.

> No, that's not so simple. I had just convinced Harald (:-) that we should
> keep the different versions of the same patch in one directory, like:

> foo/
> foo/info			# Common auxiliary files
> foo/help
> foo/linux-2.4.patch		# 2.4 speficic patch and whole files
> foo/linux-2.4/...
> foo/linux-2.6.patch		# 2.6 specific patch and whole files
> foo/linux-2.6/...

> The Requires (in your context: Depends) lines can be added to the info
> file, which thus valid for all patch-versions. In Debian, you have one
> specific package. Here we have multiple versions of the same patch.

It's pretty much the same as the Debian scheme.
A Debian package name is equivalent to your "foo". Several
versions of it may exist at the same time.
Debian has several files (.deb) containing a package name and version.
A "Packages" file is computed based on that files.

Your "info" is the equivalent of a single entry in the Debian Packages
file, no problem...
Your "linux-2.4" is the equivalent of the package-version.deb
Your "help" could probably be integrated into "info".

So I see no problem with your scheme. Yet, what would you put in
"linux-2.4/..."?  Why doesn't it get into linux-2.4.patch?

I would have thought about a single file for each foo-version, which
would be called foo-version.pom

Each file would contain:

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< CUT HERE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Module: foo
Section: extra
Author: ...
...
Version: 2.4.3      # note: version of the module, not of the kernel)
Depends: nat (>= 0.9.0), linux (>= 2.4.22)
Description: the foo module adds ...

<the diff itself>
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< CUT HERE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And you could have at the same time, if needed:
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< CUT HERE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Module: foo
Section: extra
Author: ...
...
Version: 2.6.3
Depends: nat (>= 1.0.0), linux (>= 2.6.0)
Description: the foo module adds ...

<the diff itself>
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< CUT HERE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Everything in a flat directory... Or you can create a section
directory, like the old system.
Or even create a directory per module, if you want, so you can factorize
Module name and Description fields.

Well... do as you please.

 Herve

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