Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 20:29:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd human intervention question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007032027270.11941-100000@gateway.posi.net> In-Reply-To: <20000703142700.U48373@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > 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. > > From reading the manual page it looks like -S doesn't do what you want, > but perhaps I'm misreading it. > Hmm. Well, yes, -f will definately solve my problem. Thanks. But I still think that -S shouldn't prompt you for a file to patch if it doesn't exist, only to skip it. But that's a different matter now that I can finish the port. :) Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Belmont, CA System Administrator, eGroups.com http://www.egroups.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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