Re: avoiding a huge Cygwin patch

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>]

Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:

> I want to add PDF and HTML user manuals (about 250 KB and 160 KB,
> respectively) into the unison package.  The manuals are available for
> download at the upstream site, but they aren't included in the package
> source archive.  This creates two problems:
>
> (1) It will cause the gbs to create an enormous patch file, containing
> all of the PDF and HTML manuals in it.
> (2) The PDF includes some binary data.  I've never tried to use diff and
> patch with binary data, but I'm guessing that it's asking for trouble.
>
> So what's the best way to handle this?  Is it acceptable to copy the
> manuals in after creating the source patch, thereby excluding them from
> the patch?

Yes.  You can add as many flags to the mkpatch() function as needed, e.g.
-x 'additional-docs'
when you put the documents intopp a directory called 'additional-docs'.
Just make a note in the README where the documents are available, add
the license for the docs (if different as the source licenses).

Maybe the best way to handle this would be a separate package with the
manuals and, if available, with the documents source in a src package.

Gerrit
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