Subject: Re: Multiple patches in one file
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/26/2006 20:52:06
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 08:37:47PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> I'm currently working on a fix for D-Bus that involves touching
> multiple files in the source tree. All the changes are related in
> that they are all required to implement some extra functionality to
> get D-Bus working properly under NetBSD. You can see the patch here
> (despite the .bin extension, put there by the mail archive system):
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/attachments/20060826/dc5cb206/dbus-keyring-0001.bin
>
> I'm wondering if it'd be OK to commit this specific patch to pkgsrc as
> is, without splitting it into multiple patch-a* files.
Why not point the package to above patch via PATCHFILES instead?
Joerg