Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:27:00 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd human intervention question Message-ID: <20000703142700.U48373@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007022313290.7980-100000@gateway.posi.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007022313290.7980-100000@gateway.posi.net>
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Kelly Yancey wrote:
> I've run into a strange problem while creating a new port that I hope
> someone can help me with. I've got a patch that I download from a remote =
site
> which contains patches to 7 files. However, the 7th file doesn't exist (n=
or
> should it...that's OK). So, I was going to use PATCH_DIST_ARGS to explici=
tely
> skip the 7th file using -S. The problem is that due to a bug in patch (PR
> 19638), patch asks "File to patch:" and waits for human intervention (it =
turns
> out that it doesn't matter what they type, just something, and then patch=
(1)=20
> will skip that patch).
> So the question is: what do I do? Even if the PR is closed tomorrow, it=
'll
> only be for -current and maybe MFC'ed to -stable (it's a pretty simple pa=
tch,
> so I should think so). I still need a solution that works for everyone wi=
th
> the still-broken patch(1).
Are you sure you don't want -f:
-f, --force
forces patch to assume that the user knows exactly
what he or she is doing, and to not ask any ques-
tions. It assumes the following: skip patches for
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
which a file to patch can't be found; patch files
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
even though they have the wrong version for the
``Prereq:'' line in the patch; and assume that
patches are not reversed even if they look like they
are. This option does not suppress commentary; use
-s for that.
=46rom reading the manual page it looks like -S doesn't do what you want,
but perhaps I'm misreading it.
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