Re: GNOME 1.1.90 "Octothorp GNOME" Final Beta Released

["Sean Middleditch" <sean middleditch Iname com>]

Hmm, why do we create patches for packages when they won't work as needed?

Sean Middleditch

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To: Sean Thomas Middleditch <sean.middleditch@iname.com>
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Subject: Re: GNOME 1.1.90 "Octothorp GNOME" Final Beta Released


> > make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/gnome-core-1.1.90/pixmaps'
> > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `gnome-suse.png', needed by
`all-am'.  Stop.
>
> <snip>
>
> > when building an rpm (unset LINGUAS ; rpm -ra gnome-core-1.1.90.tar.gz).
This is using the diff from
> > version 1.1.9 to 1.1.90.  As a note, there were a few messages about
patch succeeding with fuzzy 1 or
> > somesuch (scrolled by too fast, didn't try to repatch to catch them).
> >
>
> Patches can't patch none text files, so any new pixmaps that there'll be
won't
> get added. just do a touch gnome-suse.png or substitute some other pixmap.
>
> Maybe it would be possible for releases to have a patch and a tarball of
"extra
> files that patch can't distribute"?
>
> iain
>