This repository contains all the sources for the elementary specific patches.
The packages are included into the OS Patches Repository.
The master branch is composed of GitHub Workflows that are running daily to
check for any new version in the Ubuntu repositories of the patched components.
If a newer version of a package is found in the Ubuntu repositories, a Pull Request
will be opened in this repository to let the team know to rebase patches and push
and update.
The workflow uses the get-latest-version.py python script included.
It depends on python3-launchpadlib, python3-apt and python3-github.
The repository is made of several distinct branches:
import-list-$UBUNTU_NAME is the branch listing the different packages
that are getting patched.$PACKAGE-$UBUNTU_NAME is the last source that got used to create the
patched version$PACKAGE-$UBUNTU_NAME-patched is $PACKAGE-$UBUNTU_NAME with the patch
applied on itThe package list file in import-list-$UBUNTU_NAME contains one package per
line of packages to be monitored by the workflow. If the patched package has
been backported from a newer Ubuntu release, you can denote this in the list
with a colon separator
e.g. packagekit:$NEWER_UBUNTU_NAME
Note that when possible, we try to discourage the use of OS patches and work directly with upstream to include them.
Create a new orphan branch
git checkout --orphan {pkg-name}-{dist} && git rm -rf .
Get the source of the package to be patched with apt-source. Do not use sudo.
apt source {pkg-name}
Remove everything but the unpacked sources
rm *.tar.* *.dsc
Move the source folder contents up to the pwd and then delete the empty folder
cp -r {source-folder-name}/* . && rm -r {source-folder-name}
Add source files, commit, and push
git add * && git commit -am "Initial Import, version {pkg-version}"
Create a -patched branch as a fork of this branch, not an orphan, make changes and push
Create a packaging recipe on Launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/~elementary-os/elementaryos/+git/os-patches/+recipes
Once the build succeeds and is uploaded, update the import-list-{dist} branch. If this is done before the build succeeds, there will be false issue reports filed due to missing packages.