Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:51:18 -0800 (PST) From: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org> To: John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patching Message-ID: <20030107124741.O39895@entwistle.sonicboom.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0301071541040.3301-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0301071541040.3301-100000@otter.mills-atl.com>
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Right at the top of the patch man page it says: but usually just patch <patchfile I missed the <, my bad although that is most nonintuitive, wtf ever happened to command argument? If it needs to read a textfile then have it read what I put in. Bri On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, John Mills wrote: > Freebies - > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Brian wrote: > > > I downloaded the relevant patch and .asc files to /tmp this am, and then > > execute > > > > patch /tmp/filedesc.patch > > >From 'man patch': > ========================================================================= > patch - apply a diff file to an original > > SYNOPSIS > patch [options] [origfile [patchfile]] [+ [options] [orig- > file]]... > > but usually just > > patch <patchfile > ... > ========================================================================= > > so try: > patch < /tmp/filedesc.patch > > > You may need to use '-p[1 2 3 ...]' depending on the relative paths to > directory from which the patch was made and to where you are applying the > patches. The usual indicator for this is an error message to the effect: > 'Cannot find file <leadingpath>/<filename>. Name of file to patch:' > > - John Mills > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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