Re: Reducing the number of patches in pkgsrc

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:55:47PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Very true.  And to make things worse, I think mkpatches doesn't  
> preserve the names of the patches when it regenerates them.  (Or if  
> it does, then this is some developer's "fault" ;-)

mkpatches tries to make the new patches' names the same as the old
ones for the same files.
It usually succeeds, except if the patches are not in the standard
format (yes, we still have some of those around).
 Thomas