On Thursday 21 July 2011 22:26:36 Timothy Pearson wrote:

> >> Clicked "Send" a bit early..."use" above should be "us", and I also
> >> forgot
> >> to mention that Robert is pulling patches from that source already.
> >>
> >> Thanks for sending the link in though.  If you want to help out, there
> >> are
> >> a lot of patches to go through to verify that they are not already in
> >> the
> >> Trinity sources.  Every little bit helps!
> >
> > I think the easiest way to determine it is to try to build Trinity using
> > existing
> > specs from openSUSE. The patches which will not be rejected could be added
> > to Trinity.
> >
> 
> So the OpenSUSE build system will continue even if a patch was already
> applied, but still log the errors? 

No. But it is possible to enable all patches and then disable one by one.

> If so, that does sound like a good way 
> to determine what is applied and what is not.  Remember though that we
> can't just apply all the patches blindly to the Trinity source, as some of
> them are distribution specific.
> 
> Robert, would this make your life easier?