[Frugalware-devel] patch desciptions

VMiklos mamajom at axelero.hu
Thu Mar 17 18:43:29 CET 2005


Szabó Péter László wrote:
> VMiklos írta:
> 
>> that would like the following:
>>
>> Author: XY
>> Date: 2005-03-17
>> Origin: $pkgname CVS
>> Upstream Status: Sent
>> Description: Fixes x issue
>>
>  seems good. What's for the "Origin"? if it is to describe the source to 
> which the patch can be applied, then a more meaningful name (like 
> 'Applies-to')  might worth to consider.

no, it's for 'where the patch came from?'

for example:
Author: Alan Cox
Origin: LKML
Desc: secfix

in addition, a field would be good that would point to where the patch 
was sent (if sent) we could simply call it 'URL: '

udv / greetings,
VMiklos

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