[Building Sakai] Managing local patches

[Jez Cope]

After chatting to a few people at the UK & Ireland Sakai Support Network 
(UKISSN) meeting about maintaining local codebase modifications when 
upgrading, I thought I'd mention Quilt, which I've found very useful for 
this purpose.

It makes it very easy to maintain and update a stack of patches, just by 
editing the files to be patched.

More info at:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt
http://www.suse.de/~agruen/quilt.pdf

Packages available for Ubuntu and MacPorts (and probably most other 
Unix-like things).

I hope others find this useful.

All the best,
Jez

-- 
Jez Cope <http://people.bath.ac.uk/jc619>, ICT Project Manager
Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies
<http://www.bath.ac.uk/csct>
University of Bath
Tel: +44(0)1225 385827