Jesper Louis Andersen
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Well, in Gentoo we normally resort to using sed to fix these kinds of things. If we can do it, I'm sure the Arch package managers are able to do so.
That is not a bad idea. The only problem I can see with that approach is the error-reports will be hard to understand if they are not filtered through the maintainer of said Gentoo-package. I usually configure my git-repositories to use 'git describe' and add a -dirty or -tainted to that if the tree is not clean when building. This tend to capture the problem of local patches and gives me a hint that something is altered :)
Well, I was only talking about it from a package management point of view, in which case users do come and complain to us first ;-) Note that the sed'ding is done via the Gentoo ebuild for the package, as are any patches we apply; as such there's no "fixed" tarball or anything floating around for any of these packages. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com