/hg/icedtea6: 2010-01-05 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>

[Andrew John Hughes]

2010/1/6 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> 2010/1/5  <gbenson at icedtea.classpath.org>:
>> > changeset c99b9280fdcf in /hg/icedtea6
>> > details: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6?cmd=changeset;node=c99b9280fdcf
>> > author: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>
>> > date: Tue Jan 05 10:09:26 2010 +0000
>> >
>> >   2010-01-05 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>
>> >
>> >     * patches/zero/6909153.patch: New file.
>> >     * patches/zero/6913869.patch: Likewise.
>> >     * Makefile.am (ICEDTEA_PATCHES): Added the above.
>>
>> Err... these are probably great and all, but I don't know what
>> they are without looking up the Sun bug reports.  This ChangeLog
>> is pretty unhelpful in working out what these do and I didn't
>> see a mail to the list. or anything on the wiki.  It's just I'm
>> well aware of what a pain this can be when patches later break
>> or need to be dropped.
>
> The point of that directory is that every patch in there is in
> upstream OpenJDK, so, no patch in there should ever be ported to
> icedtea7 (because that already has them, or will do very shortly)
> and if one fails to apply it's almost certainly because it has
> filtered into the HotSpot tarball we're using.
>

That doesn't mean they shouldn't be documented.  I've added the two new ones to

http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea_JDK6_Patches

Please make sure to add future patches and use a more useful comment
than 'New file' in the ChangeLog.

They will break for other reasons.  For one thing, we have a HotSpot
update (to HS16) coming post-b18.

> Cheers,
> Gary
>
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>



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