Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Any interest in adding Shorewall

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On 12/05/2003 12:47:48 AM Martin Glazer wrote:
>On December 4, 2003 06:20 am, Bruce Smith wrote:
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>> > It would be great if you can send us a "diff" next time, we prefer
>this.
>> > You find it in the generated docu how to do this (I don't think
>it's on
>> > the website yet).
>
>Next time, if I can figure out this diff and patch thing I will. The
>doc I
>found only talks about single file patches though.

Really ? It's easy, just add the parameter -r (or -R ?) and specify
directories instead of files.

>> Look at the man page for "patch", it gives a good example for a
>> recursive unified diff.
>>
>
>I know how to do patch files for single files, but not for complete
>directories. Do I need to keep 2 copies of my build directories - one
>with my

I do it usually with 2 directories, i.e. scripts & scripts.orig

>new files and the other with the standard DL cvs? or can I do a cvs diff
>somehow?

Never used cvs diff....

>Excuse my ignorance in these matters, but I'm not used to submitting
>patches.
>
>If I try using 2 build directories, this command (from the man page)
>appears
>to work...
>diff -Naur --exclude=tmp  build build.new/ > patchfile.diff

That should work just fine.

>How have other contributors setup their build/development systems?

Inside the lfssystem I usally use the path /data/build , but you can use
whatever you want.

Heiko