76648 – pass epatch options to patch

Bug 76648 - pass epatch options to patch

Summary: pass epatch options to patch

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	SpanKY

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Reported:	2005-01-04 08:28 UTC by Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED)
Modified:	2005-01-04 11:23 UTC (History)
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Description Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-04 08:28:23 UTC

It would be great if we could pass options to patch via epatch, 9 times out of 10, if a patch fails because of a version bump It would have applied safely just by adding -F3 to the options, or sometimes just -l.

In fact, if a patch does fail because of a version bump, the first thing I try is applying it with -F3 -l and then diffing the patch out again, the success rate is huge.

This would save developers development time, maintenance time (less patches to keep track off, reduce time required to commit new versions and reduce mirror/portage-tree space.

Comment 1 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev

2005-01-04 09:10:16 UTC

EPATCH_OPTS="-F3 -l" epatch <file>

Comment 2 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-04 11:23:47 UTC

ahh, thanks sven. sorry for bugspam.