From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Léo Le Bouter" <lle-bout@zaclys.net>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Generate diff with git-diff and use in patches field of packages
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:42:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86mtvbcegn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9c87ea8ccd6e594e5a626e18183821d1ec34c92.camel@zaclys.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-10 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-10 3:11 Generate diff with git-diff and use in patches field of packages Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-10 13:42 ` zimoun [this message]
2021-03-10 17:09 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-10 17:49 ` zimoun
2021-03-10 18:06 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-10 18:42 ` zimoun
2021-03-10 17:09 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-10 17:55 ` zimoun
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