[csw-maintainers] GAR: rebuilding after modifying a file in software's sources

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
>
> Am 20.10.2009 um 15:52 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Maciej,
>>>
>>> Am 20.10.2009 um 15:30 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
>>>>>
>>>>> gmake rebuild ;-)
>>>>
>>>> I've tried that already:
>>>
>>> Umh, my mistake. There is none. Seems like I intended but never did it.
>>> Sorry. For the moment please use
>>>  gmake clean && gmake build
>>
>> This one I don't want to use, because the source in work/ is a
>> git-controlled local repository to which I'm making changes.
>>
>>> or go to the source dir manually and issue gmake there.
>>
>> This doesn't work, it says that ranlib was not found.
>>
>> Yes, I'll open a bug.
>
> I see. It may be a good idea to review the whole patch-process,
> maybe some kind of "maintainer mode" unpacking stuff to a local
> git repo allowing branching, delivering patches to files/ and
> checking out to WORKSRC would be useful... A thing for some
> cold nights to come ;-)

I already have a half-broken prototype. It works, except it's hard to
merge. I might start a new gar branch so you can see what my ideas
are.

Maciej