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From: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild policy questions.
Date: 12 Apr 2002 22:10:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wxxwuvcr84f.fsf@nommo.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1018633472.10970.0.camel@silica.localmosci>

"Tod M. Neidt" <tod@gentoo.org> writes:

> Hi Terje!

  hi Tod.  :)
 
> I should have explicitly discussed the distinction between upstream
> and third-party patches and those that are specific to Gentoo Linux.
> I assumed that we were talking about the former in my previous post.

  I didn't think much of the difference to be honest.  but thanks for
  clearing it up.
 
> Normally gentoo specific patches created by the ebuild author are
> kept in the files directory.  A suffix of "-gentoo" is typically
> appended to indicate this.  For example,
> xgammon-0.98-gentoo-makefile.patch, or something to that effect.

  oki.  I'll keep that in mind when writing patches.
 
> Sorry for any confusion that this may have caused.

  stop being sorry for helping.  ;)

-- 
Terje


      reply	other threads:[~2002-04-12 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-11 20:30 [gentoo-dev] ebuild policy questions Terje Kvernes
2002-04-11 21:54 ` Tod M. Neidt
2002-04-12 10:27   ` Terje Kvernes
2002-04-12 17:44     ` Tod M. Neidt
2002-04-12 20:10       ` Terje Kvernes [this message]

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