Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (127 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

> 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. 

Happened to GCC at some point in time and caused miscompiles on s390.
Not nice.  Thus I really like that new default even if it causes
some initial extra work.

Richard.

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Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>
Novell / SUSE Labs
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