avoiding a huge Cygwin patch

Lapo Luchini lapo@lapo.it
Thu Oct 14 20:40:00 GMT 2004


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Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:

> So what's the best way to handle this? Is it acceptable to copy
> the manuals in after creating the source patch, thereby excluding
> them from the patch?

In HTML Tidy package (src, doc and test are 3 different archives) I
solved modifying the script to decompress all of the 3, during "prep".
This way, the patch also applies only to differences in content; take
a look at the script in case: it's a very easy mod.

Lapo

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