Hi, mysql project is using https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/mysql-extras.git/ (i.e. an own repository) to track patches.
What I like about it: 1) We track patches/changes due to using a VCS. 2) We can fetch directly from gitweb.gentoo.org, i.e. no need to adjust SRC_URI when changing a patch. Just push your patch, create and push a new tag, update the patch set variable and you are done. Reminds me of https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/ What I don't like about this: Cleanup is probably not that easy, the patch tarball size will increase over the time because tracking which patches are still in use can become a challenge. If you use a patch tarball the ebuild will probably don't use EAPI's default src_prepare function. You will use code like > eapply "${WORKDIR}"/patch/*.patch > eapply_user which makes it not an easy/clean task to just add *one* small/temporary patch if you need to. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5
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