From: "Chad M. Huneycutt" <chad.huneycutt@acm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] src_unpack and patches
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:34:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CE3B568.40603@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020516144731.1ad6ed3e.ryan.shaw@stanfordalumni.org
Ryan Shaw wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The developer docs say:
>
> src_unpack: Use this function to unpack your sources and apply
> patches, and run autoconf/automake/etc. if necessary. By default,
> unpacks the packages in ${A} and applies ${PF}-gentoo.diff. The
> default starting directory is ${WORKDIR}.
>
> However, src_unpack just seems to unpack sources: it doesn't
> apply the *-gentoo.diff patch automatically. Are the docs old
> or is this something intended that hasn't been implemented
> yet?
I am not sure whether it used to patch and now doesn't or if the patching
was just never implemented by default. At any rate, you should report this
at bugzilla. You might also mention that the unpack routine is a little
braindead with respect fo files that are gzipped, but not tarred.
Chad (chadh@gentoo.org)
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2002-05-16 5:47 [gentoo-dev] src_unpack and patches Ryan Shaw
2002-05-16 13:34 ` Chad M. Huneycutt [this message]
2002-05-16 13:38 ` Ryan Shaw
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