Re: [gentoo-dev] Patch filename conventions (WAS: Proposal: patches.gentoo.org)

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:14:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 14 October 2004 06:08 pm, Dylan Carlson wrote:
> > I know it's bad form to reply to your own message, but I'm doing it anyway.
> > Here's my quick stab on filename convention:
> if a covention is going to be developed it's going to involve what epatch 
> already uses:
> ##_${ARCH}_foo.patch
> 
> if you want to flesh out the 'foo' part, fine, but the prefix involving a # 
> and $ARCH is already set in stone
Thats a very bad road to take.

The primary reason against it is packages that share patches.
Eg:
- php, php-cgi, mod_php all use the same hardenedPHP patch.

One thing that hasn't been proposed, but I feel would probably make a
very good suggestion, would be to increase the update frequency on the
master distfiles mirror that users have access to, assuming it can
handle the load (I assume it has the bandwidth given the proposals for
another patches server near it).
If the patch isn't found in local mirror://gentoo/ servers, they
eventully end up at th master distfiles box, which will have the patch.

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