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Bug 484642

Summary: eutils.eclass: epatch documentation states wrong -p5 limit (-p4 is actual max)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Component: EclassesAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev 2013-09-12 03:59:57 UTC 
# @FUNCTION: epatch
# @USAGE: [options] [patches] [dirs of patches]
# @DESCRIPTION:
# epatch is designed to greatly simplify the application of patches.  It can
# process patch files directly, or directories of patches.  The patches may be
# compressed (bzip/gzip/etc...) or plain text.  You generally need not specify
# the -p option as epatch will automatically attempt -p0 to -p5 until things
# apply successfully.

Actual code does -p0 .. -p4

Please reconcile.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2013-09-12 20:42:55 UTC 
according to the history, it has always used '-lt 5' as the limit, so it's not like there's a regression.  if no one has complained about missing -p5 support, then i guess we just change the documentation to match reality.