Bug 56014 – suggestion: %patch can have more options

Bug 56014 - suggestion: %patch can have more options

Summary:	suggestion: %patch can have more options

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	2001-11-10 15:01 EST by S P Arif Sahari Wibowo
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-11-10 15:48:41 EST
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Description S P Arif Sahari Wibowo 2001-11-10 15:01:04 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011

Description of problem:
suggestion: %patch macro should be able to pass more options to patch.
In my pasticular case, I need to pass option --ignore-whitespace to patch.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.0

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpm -bp <spec-file>

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-11-10 15:48:35 EST

%patchN was added to rpm for 2 reasons:

    1) patch-2.1 and patch-2.5 had different options
    2) the N in %patchN needed to include a possibly
     compressed patch

There's really no reason in the world why you can't apply
your own patches any which way you choose. Access the full
name of the patch as %{PATCHn}, substituting n as appropriate
from the PatchN: directive, and use patch directly in the %prep section

     cat %{PATCHn} | patch <your options here>

or any of a zillion other variants.

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