[ On Friday, October 6, 2000 at 07:13:04 (-0400), mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: pkgsrc reorg
>
> this is true.  What I'm talking about is the case where we have 35
> patches, they get submitted to the program author who likes 27 of them,
> decides the others are not ok and so next time around the pkg maintainer
> has to identify what was incorporated and what not.  I for one always go
> through each of the patches 1 by 1 to see if they still are needed and at
> least for me its a pain if I have to dig through 1 giant patch file to
> pull out whats still needed.

Once again CVS is your friend.  The result of a successful merge will be
just those changes that need to be maintained locally -- all patches
accepted by the vendor will be eliminated "automatically".

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