From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu (Thomas G(dot) Lockhart) |
Cc: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] patching utilities? |
Date: | 1998-10-02 16:23:23 |
Message-ID: | 199810021623.MAA10327@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Is it too late to consider distributing a patching mechanism with the
> upcoming release?
>
> Probably everyone has some sort of utility for doing this; I've got
> GenPatches and ApplyPatches which traverse the source tree looking for
> ".orig" files and running diff on any it finds, saving the results to
> .patch files. If we packaged these routines (perhaps slightly modified
> to encapsulate any patches into a specific area; or we could use someone
> else's routines) into a new directory
>
> $(POSTGRESDIR)/patch
>
> then we could generate standard patch tarballs which people could put
> into that directory and then automatically expand and apply.
>
> Does anyone want to work on it?
The Developer's FAQ mentions our difforig, cporig, rmorig tools. To
apply the patch, just use any standard patch program, no?
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