Re: [Quilt-dev] Applying local patches for new upstream releases

[Peter Williams]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Monday 10 October 2005 15:32, Ferran Jorba wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to deal graciously with their upstream releases, as when I
> > untar them, they produce, as customary, a new directory.  How do I get my,
> > say, 0.7.0 patches and apply them to my 0.7.1?
>
>
> Create a copy of thirdparty-0.7.0/patches in thirdparty-0.7.1/, and apply the 
> patches with quilt push. Don't copy the .pc directory.

It would be nice to have a quilt "archive" command to create a tar 
archive of the patches as it would be very useful for this type of 
thing.  For a start it would ideally only include those files in the 
patches directory that are still relevant to the patch set and this 
would help a lot.

Peter
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