Bug 226825

Summary:	sys-block/partimage: patch (partimage-0.6.7-chown.patch) changes both autotools source and result
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	226305

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-14 17:34:54 UTC

The patch in summary is touching both Makefile.in and Makefile.am, probably to avoid autotools rebuild.

This treatment is usually reserved for a few selected system packages that cannot have their autotool scripts rebuilt.

This _could_ cause maintainermode-driven rebuild (see http://blog.flameeyes.eu/articles/2008/06/13/maintaner-mode ), which is something we should be avoiding as much as possible.

Please just patch Makefile.am and/or configure.in/.ac and rebuild autotools, unless you have very good reasons not to.

P.S.: many more patches do the same, I just listed the last one.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-07 22:59:47 UTC

No such patch in 0.6.8, the problem will go away with it...