RFC: Minor specfile rework for rawhide

[Christopher Brown]

On 21/01/2008, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~ajax/kernel-autopatch.patch
>
> Based on something I did for the xserver specfile.  Essentially this
> makes it so you only have to name the patches once, in the order you
> want to apply them, which makes it both easier to work with and harder
> to forget things.
>
> I've tried to make this as friendly and robust as possible, including
> bailing out appropriately when faced with a bad patch, and explicitly
> naming patches that fail to apply right at the end of build output.
> Feedback would be appreciated, even if it's of the form "no, that's
> gross."

Can't speak from an implementation point of view but you must be a
mind-reader. Several people will appreciate the thought behind it,
myself included. On #fedora-kernel recently:

<kylem> i really find it irritating that i need to edit Patchxx: *and*
add an ApplyPatch.
* kylem ponders converting the spec file to use quilt.
<j-rod> fark
<j-rod> not a fan of that either
<jwb> why not j-rod ?
<f13> I think he meant he's not a fan of editing twice.
<f13> not that he wasn't a fan of quilt.
<jwb> oh
<kylem> i always forget to do one or the other :\

Cheers!

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Christopher Brown

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