dbs-edit-patch - Edit a DBS patch

dbs-edit-patch is script to generate or modify patches for Debian source-packages in DBS format.

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-t, --tmpdir t

directory for the temporary files, default is /tmp or if set $TMP.

-s, --sourcedir s

Top level directory of the debian-package source-tree, default is the present working directory.

-p patch

Striplevel -p of patch (Option -p of diff(1) ), accepted values are 0 and 1, default is 0.

TMP

Sets the directory for the temporary files, can be overriden with --tmpdir t

Edit the 021_debian patch of Heimdal:

~/heimdal-0.3d$ dbs-edit-patch -t/tmp 021_debian
Extracting source heimdal-0.3d.tar.gz ... successful.
Applying patch 001_replay ... successful.
etc.
Copying heimdal-0.3d to heimdal-0.3d-old ... successful.
Applying patch 021_debian ... successful.

Edit files under /tmp/021_debian/heimdal-0.3d as required, then execute /tmp/021_debian/dbs_update_patch to save the results.

Technote: dbs-edit-patch extracts the original source code into /tmp/021_debian/heimdal-0.3d, applies all patches before 021_debian, copies the result to /tmp/021_debian/heimdal-0.3d-old, and applies the last patch 021_debian (if it exists). Also, it creates a shell archive which will create the diff between the old and new directories:

~/heimdal-0.3d$ ls -l /tmp/021_debian
total 12
-rwxr-xr-x    1 bam      users         112 Jan 31 13:31 dbs-update-patch*
drwxr-xr-x   14 bam      users        4096 Jan 31 13:31 heimdal-0.3d/
drwxr-xr-x   14 bam      users        4096 Jan 31 13:31 heimdal-0.3d-old/
~/heimdal-0.3d$ cat /tmp/021_debian/dbs-update-patch
#!/bin/sh
diff -ruN /tmp/021_debian/heimdal-0.3d /tmp/021_debian/heimdal-0.3d-old > ./debian/patches/021_debian

diff(1), /usr/share/doc/dbs/*, http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~bam/debian/faq/#dbs

DBS was written by Adam Heath, modified by Ben Collins, modified and packaged for Debian by Brian May. This manpage was generated by Andreas Metzler.