Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (127 mails)

["Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 10 November 2009, 15:19:33 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 November 2009 02:11:51 pm Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > No one knows what the fuzz was all about, so we set it to 0.
>
> I assume this was just meant to be funny, but just in case there is any
> seriousness in it: fuzz defines how many lines of leading and trailing
> context may be ignore when trying to apply a hunk in a context or unified
> patch. Fuzz N means ignore N lines of leading and N lines of trailing
> context, hence 2*N lines. The default for diff is to generate patches
> with three context lines, and the default fuzz value for patch is 2.

Well, I guess, Stephan knows very well, what the fuzz is about: it's about 
hundreds of patches, which will have to be regenerated, done as an 
employment-creation measure for this lazy gang of packagers. 

I'm not in the position to estimate the *failure* rate of wrongly applied 
patches because of fuzz, but I guess, it's going to train my abilities to 
manually adjust patches once again, or probably, if in doubt, resort to 
sed -i. 

Pete
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