[Buildroot] problem with sudo patch file name
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Mon Sep 10 06:35:24 UTC 2012
>>>>> "Danomi" == Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123 at gmail.com> writes:
Danomi> Hi,
Danomi> I recently started to update our project to buildroot-2012.08. When I went to
Danomi> check into source control, I got an error from this file:
Danomi> package/sudo/
Danomi> sudo-1.8.5p2-backport-commit-8209:0c4e3f68b2f5-from-upstream.patch
Danomi> The problem is the colon (":") in the file name. I think the
Danomi> problem is that our source control system is on a Windows
Danomi> server
Danomi> Would there be interest in a patch that renames this file to
Danomi> remove the colon? We could change the colon to an underscore
Danomi> or dash, but I see that the upstream commit number is in a
Danomi> comment at the top of the patch, so I don't know that naming
Danomi> the file after the upstream commit number is actually helpful.
Danomi> Maybe "sudo-1.8.5p2-backport-cross-compile-fix.patch" would be
Danomi> better?
Thanks for the heads up. Instead of renaming the file I bumped the sudo
package to the recent 1.8.6 release (so we don't need the patch any
more), but I'll try to remember for the future.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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