Subject: Re: Q&D guide to putting perl modules into pkgsrc?
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
From: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/26/2004 16:42:15
Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

>>Hunk #1 succeeded at 615 with fuzz 1.
> 
> 				^^^^^^
> 
> From Packages.txt:
> 
> 	The patch-* files should be in "diff -bu" format, and apply without a fuzz
> 	to avoid problems (to force patches to apply with fuzz you can set
> 	PATCH_FUZZ_FACTOR=-F2).  Furthermore, do not put changes for more than one
> 	file into a single patch-file, as this will make future modifications more
> 	difficult.
> 
> So, in summary: pkgsrc doesn't like that.  Patches have to apply cleanly.
> 
> Apply the patch manually and regenerate it, preferably using pkgdiff from
> pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgdiff.

Done, thanks.  Can I submit the pkg to someone to include in
pkgsrc?

Carl