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Re: Generate diff with git-diff and use in patches field of packages
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zimoun |
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Re: Generate diff with git-diff and use in patches field of packages |
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Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:42:32 +0100 |
Hi,
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 04:11, Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout@zaclys.net> wrote:
> While patching packages for security issues, I often am needing to get
> some patches from git repos because upstream does not make releases.
If the package already uses git-fetch, why not directly uses the commit
fixing the issue as source?
If the package is not already using git-fetch but instead url-fetch,
maybe the replacement to git-fetch makes sense. Even if there is no
consensus about git-fetch vs url-fetch. :-) Thread here:
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-05/msg00224.html>
Cheers,
simon
Re: Generate diff with git-diff and use in patches field of packages, Leo Famulari, 2021/03/10