Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Breakage on merge branch (patch-57)



My guess is that changing the id's won't do anything.  You can always
try on a seperate branch and see what happens.

sri
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 08:43 +1000, James Livingston wrote:
> G'day again everyone,
> 
> After getting some help from the arch-users mailing list, we've figured
> out why the problem is occurring:
> 
> 1) the id (the "arch-tag:" line) of the sources/rb-sourcelist.{c,h}
> contain quotes combined with
> 2) some of us are using version of tla <= 1.2.0 and other using >= 1.2.1
> 
> Apparently in 1.2.1 the handling of these was changed so the
> 'mod-files-index' file of the patch has the quotes escaped with a
> backslash. Version 1.2.0 or earlier interpret that as two characters,
> and so looks for a file with the backslash in its name.
> 
> If you look at the output of the replay/update/merge command you'll
> notice that it has "?M" instead of the normal "M" next to those file
> names. This means that it couldn't find the file, and for some reason
> I'm not sure of it doesn't report this as an error.
> 
> 
> The two solutions for stopping this happening in the future are 
> a) tell everyone to use tla 1.2.1 or higher, or
> b) remove the quotes from the id
> 
> (b) would probably be better, but I don't know if changing a file's id
> will break anything.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James "Doc" Livingston 
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