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This package uses per-topic patches, rather than per-file patches.
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This means some of the patches patch multiple files, and some files
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are patched more than once. The order the patches are applied in
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matters, too. If you use mkpatches or regenerate patches naively you
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*will* screw things up. Don't.
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If you need to rebuild any of the existing patches, until such time as
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pkgsrc gets native support for per-topic patches the proper way is to
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(1) make extract, (2) touch work/.patch_done, (3) use quilt or
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Mercurial's mq extension to push and pop the patches one at a time and
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regenerate as necessary. (When done, don't forget to propagate the
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updated patches back to the patches directory if necessary before
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making clean.)
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However, in general you shouldn't need to rebuild the existing
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patches; if you have additional changes, in general they should go in
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as additional new patches.
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The long-term intent is to move these and the large number of
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xview-lib and xview-clients patches to distfile patches, or maybe even
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to issue a new distfile. However, doing this usefully requires
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organization. Per-topic patches aren't critical for xview-config,
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because there's only a handful of relatively minor changes; however,
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the old way there are 131 patches in xview-lib and 96 in xview-clients
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and (particularly in the absence of cvs rename) it's become nearly
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impossible to work with them, so sorting and reorganization has to be
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done in small steps.
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The intent also is for the xview-config patches to be patch-a?-*,
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xview-lib patches to be patch-[b-n]?-* or thereabouts, and the
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xview-clients patches to be patch-[o-z]?-* or thereabouts, so that the
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three sets of patches can be combined later without excessive
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difficulty. These three sets should be disjoint: files in config/ are
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patched in xview-config, files in clients/ are patched in xview-clients,
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and the rest are patched in xview-lib. The build is such that there's
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no overlap at build time.
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Hopefully the above is enough information for someone to pick this up
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if I get hit by a bus.
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- dholland 20110811
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