Bug 608880

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: make eapply_user allow more-specific directories to override or mask patches from less specific directories
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591420 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695600 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698244
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Bug Blocks:	627566

Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-02-10 16:55:50 UTC

Unlike epatch_user, the eapply_user implementation added in f188c989317a58ffc54cc0c022c728c100de9000 applies patches from multiple directories. Also, it applies more-specific patches before less-specific patches.

In order to enhance the existing behavior, it would make sense to:

* create a combined list of patches from all matched directories, and apply them all using the sorted order of basenames of the patches

* allow more-specific directories to override or mask patches from less-specific directories (patches would be masked by creating a symlink to /dev/null, having the same basename as the matched patch)

These enhancements would allow more control, while keeping the behavior roughly compatible with the existing behavior.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-08-06 09:08:32 UTC

Patch posted for review:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/1bfdbe198248c62949e90a21b80f102c
https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/186

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-08-11 16:10:50 UTC

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=7d2c4fb609454b76d30c42fc7a0bb720decc39a3