patchfs, audio update

Andrew V. Samoilov sav at bcs.zp.ua
Fri Dec 13 17:09:27 UTC 2002


Adam Byrtek 'alpha' wrote:
> 2002-12-13  Adam Byrtek   <alpha at debian.org>
> 
>         * extfs/patchfs.in: Copyin method added (with compressed files
>         support). Files inside archive now have '.diff' extension.
>         Temporary file not needed any more. Proper handling of
>         "/dev/null" filenames, filename heuristics based on diff info
>         page. Set files owner and group as the archive.
> 
>         * extfs/audio.in: CDDB_TIMEOUT variable added. Small fix.

Perfect and very impressive!  Power perl skills!

> 
> 
> 	
> Changelog entry attached in patch as Pavel requested.
> 
> Andrew, if you are interested I won't play with context format. I've
> tried, and realized it would take quite a lot of effort and make the
> code ugly. In fact nearly every project uses unified diffs as a
> standard for patches, even the diff/patch info page advises to use
> unified, so IMHO good unified extfs is better that unstable but
> universal.


I do not enforce you to implement context format.
But it will be some regressive and on other hand some projects (Samba as
far as I remember) require context patches.


-- 
Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov






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