[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#446756: Bug#446756: Bug#446756: ntp: Please provide a description how autotools.patch is generated

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:37:54PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 the mental interface of
> Peter Eisentraut told:
> 
> > Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter:
> > > > Which part is unclear?  Using quilt or running the autotools?
> > >
> > > Running autotools. Is it
> > >
> > > aclocal -I m4 && autoheader && automake -a && autoconf && rm -rf
> > > autom4te.cache
> > 
> > I think it depends on what you changed.  autoreconf should work most of the 
> > time.  I don't recall there being a specific process for generating that 
> > patch.
> > 
> 
> A patch generated with autoreconf is different from autotools.patch
> in the package? The autotools.patch from ntp-4.2.4p3 can't be
> refreshed via quilt 'cause there are FAILED hunks.

If quilt push fails, I suggest you force it (-f option), and then run
autoreconf, also with the -f option.


Kurt