Re: Re: Idea: embed patch in .info

Hi Max.  Well, actually I was thinking that fink could parse the shar
archive directly, and only unpack it if it was building a package
(in order to extract the patch file).  The algorithm:
 1) ignore all lines at the beginning not starting with X
 2) while the line begins with an X, drop the X and parse as usual
 3) when you reach the line that begins with END, stop and ignore the
    rest of the file.

And the kind of hand-editing I was thinking of was of the sort where all
you need to change is the version number and Source-MD5, or maybe add
a missing dependency, or something like that.  The info part of the
shar archive could easily be edited in that case.

  -- Dave


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