Originally Posted by plee3:
I like the new ability of Preware to apply patches but I have a few questions:
1) Will patches installed by Preware coexist with patches applied using "quilt"?
2) Does Preware patching handle collisions changes to the same file like quilt?
3) Will Preware keep a history of applied patches to allow proper removal of patches?
Thanks... plee3
1) Yes, as long as they do not conflict with patches to the same files.
2) Yes, the Virtual Keyboard patch will not apply if any other modifications have been done to the same files. It does md5sum checks on the files before it patches them.
3) Using Preware to uninstall the Virtual Keyboard package properly reverses the patch.
Note that some members of the WebOS Internals development team have ideas for the next generation of patch management to deal with file-level conflicts. Ask in the IRC channel for details.
-- Rod