Devmanual mentions patch have to be mirrored compressed when too big. It shows an example explaining how using such patch files: unpacking only source then using epatch on the compressed patch. However, with EAPI-2, it's not helping because patch is done in src_prepare so the patch will be in ${WORKDIR} instead of ${DISTDIR}. As the devmanual is mostly EAPI-0 aware, I don't think we should change the example to src_prepare but we should change the example to be EAPI-2 compatible. See the attachment.
Created attachment 197375 [details, diff] Fixing patch
That patch makes the example not work right anymore. Come up with an example for EAPI 2 if that's what you are going for.
(In reply to comment #2) > That patch makes the example not work right anymore. Don't get it. It's not breaking it. (I've just tested it with an EAPI-0 ebuild)
Created attachment 204238 [details, diff] Fixing patch I don't see why you think it's breaking. I've attached a new patch with comments to let user understand what's going on. As I said in comment #0, it will help having code EAPI-0 and EAPI-2 compliant as src_prepare is doing unpack ${A}.
He means that it should be adjusted to show 2 phases: src_unpack() { unpack ${A} epatch "${WORKDIR}"/Blesmrt.patch } or use simply: (since in eapi2 fallback for src_unpack() is unpack ${A}) src_prepare() { epatch "${WORKDIR}"/Blesmrt.patch }
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