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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: backporting
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-04-26 7:38:10
Message-ID: 200504260938.11176.coolo () kde ! org
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Am Dienstag 26 April 2005 05:31 schrieb David Johnson:
> Dumb question time. I've checked in a few bugfixes two weeks ago to 
> HEAD, but I want to get them backported for 3.4.1. How does one go 
> about backporting? There doesn't seem to be any docs on the devel site 
> about this. I'm sure it's easy, but I don't want to make a wrong 
> assumption and mess stuff up.
> 
If the fix is in one file, call kdesdk/scripts/cvsbackport on it. This will guide you 
through it.

If the fix is a bit bigger, create a patch using cvs diff -u -r KDE_3_4_0_RELEASE 
and sort it out. Don't worry, patches are just text files, you can remove parts of it
if you take the minimum of care ;)

If you've done that, cvs update -r KDE_3_4_BRANCH on the dir and call
patch -p0 < <patch>

Then do another cvs diff -u to see if the patch looks fine. Now you would need to
test compile against KDE 3.4 - but this is most often hard to do if your system is
already KDE HEAD, but others will tell you then. You should at least avoid any new
functions, but you will know yourself if you did.

Then commit and be done.

Greetings, Stephan

 
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