Bug 478548

Summary:	sys-devel/patch-2.7.1-r1 fails to remove empty directories if the wrong patch level is used
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joshua Kinard <kumba>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	biergaizi2009, polynomial-c, ulenrich
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker, UPSTREAM
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?39603
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Description Joshua Kinard gentoo-dev

2013-07-29 08:52:43 UTC

GNU Commit to 'patch' fixed part of the problem reported back in March 2013:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=2f40ef66bea54be23a24f616cde021d8d7fc25be

ML Report:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-patch/2013-03/msg00000.html

However, if the wrong patch level is specified when patching, patch will fail to clean up its temp working files.  This is triggered with kernel source unpacking/patching because unipatch() in kernel2.eclass takes a brute-force approach and tries to patch from -p0 until -p5 to see which patch level worked.  These empty directories are created even when --dry-run is used.

Being reported upstream and this is a tracking bug until upstream fixes.  Upstream Bug #39603.

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-08-01 08:56:50 UTC

*** Bug 479362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-08-02 13:25:23 UTC

Fixed in patch-2.7.1-r2.

Comment 3 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-08-12 22:11:54 UTC

*** Bug 478246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***