[opam-devel] Patching packages (was Re: [ocaml-platform] A small script for compiler hackers: create short-lived opam switches out of any git branch)

[Daniel Bünzli]

Le lundi, 18 mars 2013 à 17:21, Thomas Gazagnaire a écrit :
> You can use
>  
> patches: [ ... ]
>  
> in your compiler files as well. See: https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/blob/master/src/core/opamFile.ml#L1167
>  
> The patch can be local or available via HTTP.
Is there a way to specify patches during install ? That is patching an existing package without redoing a package.  

The use case is that I have this patch [1] on ocp-indent that seems unlikely to be integrated (cf. [2]). Now I would like to be able to benefit from ocp-indent's default package updates but just apply the patch before installing.  

Is there a simple workflow to achieve that ?

Best,

Daniel

[1] https://github.com/dbuenzli/ocp-indent/commit/8e76b83b8ee8e3c084a39b3d02c9a2f331e91dd9
[2] https://github.com/OCamlPro/ocp-indent/issues/37