Bug 119697

Summary:	RFE: add a gendiff that works
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Component:	patchutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Mark McLoughlin 2004-04-01 15:52:14 UTC

I can't really explain this bug better than the irc log explains it: :-)

<twaugh> markmc: er.. gendiff comes from rpm, not patchutils
<twaugh> markmc: but maybe I should add a gendiff (which works)
<alex> from rpm???
<twaugh> alex: sure, try rpm -qf /usr/bin/gendiff
<alex> but why?
<markmc> twaugh, ah :-)
<markmc> twaugh, that makes no sense ! :-)
<twaugh> markmc: change the summary to 'RFE: add a gendiff that works'
and I'll look at it in a spare moment
<twaugh> markmc: while I'm at it I could make it use -p


This is in reference to a bug I logged against gendiff - bug #11963

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-08 01:54:13 UTC

'Red Hat Raw Hide' refers to the development tree for Red Hat Linux.
Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still
running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a
current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable.
Some information on which option may be right for you is available at
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Red Hat apologizes that these issues were not resolved in a more
timely manner. However, we do want to make sure that important 
don't slip through the cracks. If these issues are still present
in a current release, such as Fedora Core 5, please move these
bugs to that product and version. Note that any remaining Red Hat
Raw Hide bugs will be closed as 'CANTFIX' on September 30, 2006.
Thanks again for your help.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-10-18 19:35:21 UTC

Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still
running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a
current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable.
Some information on which option may be right for you is available at
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Closing as CANTFIX.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2007-06-25 09:54:11 UTC

Original bug report:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119693

Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2008-04-24 07:47:36 UTC

Another idea for a new gendiff:

  http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-April/msg01813.html

It's easy to lose a patch header when you re-diff a patch because you have to do
e.g.

  $> head -10 foo-fix-bar.patch > t.tmp
  $> gendiff foo-1.2.3 .fix-bar >> t.tmp
  $> mv t.tmp foo-fix-bar.patch

but it'd be much nicer to be able to just do:

  $> gendiff foo-1.2.3 .fix-bar foo-fix-bar.patch

and have the patch header retained