Quilt is a tool to manage large sets of patches by keeping track of the changes each patch makes. Patches can be applied, un-applied,refreshed, etc. The key philosophical concept is that your primary out‐put is patches.With quilt, all work occurs within a single directory tree.Commands can be be invoked from anywhere within the source tree.
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What is a quilt patchset?
There is a git command called git-quiltimport. Its man pages says it "Applies a quilt patchset onto the current git branch, preserving the patch boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present in the quilt patchset."
However, it doesn't…
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quilt patch with a new file
I'm trying to create a new quilt patch with only one file added. Unfortunately the file seems to be ignored.
I did quilt new some_patch and quilt add some_file. I can see the file in quilt files then, but when I refresh, I get back:
Nothing in patch…
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Adding a file in a quilt/dquilt patch: patch applies correctly by hand, but breaks debuild
I am trying to add a patch to a Debian package (on an amd64 machine running Ubuntu 14.10 "Trusty").
While troubleshooting the issue, I've reduced the patch to one that adds a single file. (For the sake of context, this file modifies a fluxbox…
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Maintain set of local commits working with git-svn
I am using git to develop against a project hosted in subversion, using git-svn:
git svn clone svn://project/
My general workflow has been to repeatedly edit-and-commit on the master branch, then commit to the svn repository via:
git stash
git svn…
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Control the size of patches in Gridlayout when using QuiltView lib
I started doing Android development about a year ago and ever since I started developing ive wanted to create a layout with all different size boxes that would fit together snuggly w. out any gaps. My only other requirement was that I be able to…
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Cannot configure quilt on mac for csipsimple
I am trying to configure quilt to be able to do a make and make install so as to build csipsimple (http://code.google.com/p/csipsimple/wiki/HowToBuild) on mac, however, i run into below issue when i try to configure quilt. I have macports…
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Error "No such device or address" from child_process.exec, pipe helps. Why?
I'm using child_process.exec to execute various quilt commands and capture their output. This works fine so far for all commands except for quilt graph. which results in an error "No such device or address". That error does not occur if I run the…
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Can we use quilt to push/add to local git repository?
Can we use quilt to push/add to local git repository?
If yes, kindly help me to specify the commands and any URL/link will be of immense help.
Thanks in advance.
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Versioning when binary AND text files are involved?
I have a project where I need to maintain changes to both the text and binary files. I have a couple of options:
Use patches
Use a versioning system like git or hg.
For my purposes, patches are a better option if it was only text files. However,…
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quilt: release and debug versions of series file
Is there any proper way to apply different series of patches with quilt. I need it for release and debug version of series file. I want to use series.debug or series.release file for debug or for release version of linux kernel accordingly.
Or maybe…
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How to get source of openjdk-8-jdk with patches applied?
I have run apt-get source openjdk-8-jdk=8u275-b01-0ubuntu1~18.04.
which gathered .dsc, .orig.tar.gz file and .diff.gz files, which I deleted afterwards.
Next to these files is a folder openjdk-8-8u275-b01 which contains a debian/patches/…
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How do you use guards(1) with quilt(1)
One of the ancillary tools bundled with quilt is guards, which processes a list of guards and a configuration file matching guards and files, and outputs a list of files whose guard specifications match the provided guards.
However I can't figure…
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Question about building shadow package on Debian
I am on a Debian 10.4 system.
I am trying to compile the shadow-4.5 package due to changes in the source code.
Here is my quilt procedure: (from https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt)
$ apt-get source shadow/stable
$ export…
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How to rename a directory in a quilt patch?
I want to create a patch using quilt in which there is a directory rename. But quilt add seems to support just files.
If I should use quilt add /* then how can I add the renamed directory to my quilt patch? Invoking quilt add …
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How to modify a Debian source package to include an additional executable script?
Goal: I want to create a modified Debian source package, namely the official rrdtool package + "some changes". One of these changes is the addition of an executable script.
I have this recipe for patching packages that I've used for many…
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