[CentOS] Submitting patches from upstream fixes/bugs

[Trey Dockendorf]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>wrote:

> On 09/14/2011 01:59 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:
> > Based on the bug report for the snapshot-create issue, it seems it's in
> > libvirt 0.9.0 and that it's something that may be solved completely in
> > Fedora 16.  Is there a good way to find if a specific patch/fix has been
> > applied upstream by Red Hat?
>
> grab the sources, look at the code. I hepe to have an easier way than
> that soon, stay tuned :)
>
> > What goes into the maintenance of a patch?  I'd be happy to do so, but I
> > only know enough C to be able to work in patches / changes and track
> > down compile errors, but not enough to have been the original person
> > that finds these solutions.
>
> essentially, when you request a package be locally ( ie, in CentOS )
> patched, we would need to copy that rpm over from the base distro into
> the CentOS Plus repo. Apply the patch, test it, release it. But that
> process needs to be re-done everytime there is an update to the rpm, as
> long as upstream does not fix the issue, change the expected behaviour
> to what you are proposing or remove / change functionality in a way that
> its no longer possible to support the patches. But while the patch is in
> circulation, it would mean that everytime there is an update from
> upstream, you would need to make sure the patch still applies, or adapt
> it to apply cleanly.
>
> does this clear up the requirements a bit ?
>
> - KB
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That does, thanks.  If you want to give me more details off-list I'd like to
work on getting these patches into CentOS Plus.  Also where could I begin
looking to see if upstream RHEL has applied these to their releases?

Thanks
- Trey
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