Re: [Evolution] cvs.2001.04.08.08.00 wombat bug, questions...

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 09 Apr 2001 14:58:59 -0700, Thomas H. Ptacek wrote:
> Please find attached a patch to pas-file-backend.c that properly
> initializes the "view" struct (struct fields including pointers were
> being used uninitialized, causing a wild pointer to be passed 
> to a string routine). This bug caused my PPC build of the snapshot
> to crash every other time I entered a recipient in the "To:" field
> of the composer.
>
> General questions:
>
> What's the best place to submit bugs and patches like this?


Either evolution-hackers, or using bugzilla (i.e. file a bug report,
attach the diff)

> Is there an easy way to generate a diff from a source RPM?


I'd just do what you did, but there might be a better way, I don tknow.

> Is there an easy way to roll a new source RPM with changes 
> like this in it based on the original SRPM? What's the "canonical"
> way to include patches like this in RPMs?
>
> Sorry some of these are off-topic. Is anyone maintaining PPC builds
> of the snapshots?
>
> Great job on everything; I've been using 0.8 and 0.9 on 
> Intel, and 0.8 and the snapshots using binary and SRPMs, for 
> months now. I can't live without evolution at this point.


Cool!

If you ever intend to do more than  a few  minor patches i'd heavily
recommend using CVS for this, as its easier to generate diffs, and also
easier to maintain local patches to an existing tree, etc.

 !Z