[OpenWrt-Devel] Bash patches format

[Emanuel Haupt]

"Marty E. Plummer" <hanetzer at startmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:42:27AM +0800, Clark Wang wrote:
> > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Marty E. Plummer
> > <hanetzer at startmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > If people are willing to do the conversion between patch
> > > > formats for
> > > their
> > > > own purposes, more power to them. I don't see any compelling
> > > > reason to change the format I use.
> > > >
> > > Could I at least convince you to start doing -p1, if not unified?
> > >
> > 
> > I think the cost is too high. All bash package maintainers on
> > different *nix systems will have to change accordingly.
> > 
> > -clark
> Well how about this; we ask the downstreams. List taken from repology,
> hopefully these are still all active and accurate. So, to reiterate
> the original premise of this thread for the newly added, I suggest the
> following:
> 
> 1. Change the official upstream bash patch format to be -p1
> applicable, as a number of major linux distros either convert the
> patches in their own source repo to -p1 (debian and its children,
> fedora and its children), or have to take an explicit deviation from
> their default patch application method (gentoo) in order to apply -p0
> patches.
> 
> Optional:
> 2. Change the format of the patch from a context diff to a unified
> diff, for the following reasons:
>     a. unified diffs are generally smaller than an equivalent context
>     diff, while encoding the same information.
>     *** a/lib/readline/history.c    2015-12-28 13:50:31.000000000
> -0500
>     --- b/lib/readline/history.c    2016-09-30 14:28:40.000000000
> -0400 ***************
>     *** 308,312 ****
>     	{
>     	  if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
>     !           history_size = history_max_entries + 2;
>     	  else
>     	    history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
>     --- 310,316 ----
>     	{
>     	  if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
>     !           history_size = (history_max_entries >
> MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE) !                               ?
> MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE !                               :
> history_max_entries + 2; else
>     	    history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
> 
>     --- a/lib/readline/history.c    2015-12-28 13:50:31.000000000
> -0500 +++ b/lib/readline/history.c    2016-09-30 14:28:40.000000000
> -0400 @@ -308,5 +310,7 @@
>     	{
>     	  if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
>     -           history_size = history_max_entries + 2;
>     +           history_size = (history_max_entries >
> MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE)
>     +                               ? MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE
>     +                               : history_max_entries + 2;
>     	  else
>     	    history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
> 
>     b. <opinion> unified diffs are easier to size up at a glance than
>     context diffs.
> 
>     c. <conjecture based on personal observation> unified diffs are
> the standard for a host of foss projects, especially those using git
> as a vcs solution as it produces context diffs by default and you
> have to purposely change it to do otherwise.
> 
> Maintainers, I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this matter. If
> the diffs are produced as -p1 unified diffs, then downstreams who do
> convert from -p0 context won't have to, and distros who work around it
> won't either.

FreeBSD ports/package maintainer here.

The FreeBSD ports framework uses -p0 by default:

# make -VPATCH_STRIP -C /usr/ports/shells/bash
-p0

As long as all patches come with the same patch strip level I could
simply change the PATCH_STRIP variable.

Our porters handbook advertises unified diffs:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html

Personally I find unified diffs easier to read. From a FreeBSD
viewpoint I don't see a need to switch from -p0 to -p1.

Then again I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

Emanuel
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