quilt and GSoC

[Rainer Müller]

On 2015-03-07 15:50, Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2015-03-07 11:06, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>> On Debian, patches are found in a specific package subdirectory
>> comparable to `port dir foo`/files, but there's an additional file
>> that provides the list of patches that are applied, and in what
>> order. MacPorts doesn't have that, and I think it's not always
>> trivial to determine the exact list and order from the Portfile,
>> because it can depend on the variants selected (and possibly the
>> order in which variants are given on the commandline??).
> 
> Variants are always evaluated in the order they appear in the Portfile.
> Patches are applied in the order they are listed in the patchfiles option.
> 
>> So, if there's not already a hidden command or official script
>> somewhere that just outputs the list of patchfiles for a given
>> install command, would it be an idea for a, probably quite easy, GSoC
>> project to come up with the framework required to refresh a port's
>> patch files? Handling all combinations of variants could be left to
>> the port maintainer or actually done by the script too as it
>> shouldn't be particularly hard to program once the rest is in place.
> 
> This sounds useful, but would be way to easy to occupy a student for the
> whole summer...

In fact the first part, listing the patches that will be applied, was so
easy I just added that to base [1].

With trunk, this would now generate what you need:

$ port -q info --line --patchfiles qt5-mac | tr ',' '\n'

Rainer

[1] http://trac.macports.org/changeset/133630