From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 29 13:12:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA08610 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:12:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from gateway.sequent.com ([138.95.18.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08567 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:12:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from eng4.sequent.com (eng4.sequent.com [138.95.7.64]) by gateway.sequent.com (8.6.13/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA23903; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:10:28 -0800 Received: from localhost (bjj@localhost) by eng4.sequent.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA06009; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:11:04 -0800 Message-Id: <199602292111.NAA06009@eng4.sequent.com> X-Authentication-Warning: eng4.sequent.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: beta@XFree86.Org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, hua@chromatic.com Subject: Re: Large scale patching fails (most probably a FreeBSD bug) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Feb 96 12:43:34 PST." <9602292043.AA04402@krypton.chromatic.com> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 13:11:03 PST From: Ben Jackson Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <9602292043.AA04402@krypton.chromatic.com> , you wrote: > [patch] seemingly random failure. The software base has always been > XFree86 [...] > The bug manifests itself in the form of patch stopping > because it cannot find a specific file to patch. Usually this means that there is a new file in the patch that doesn't exist at all in your existing tree. If you want patch to do the right thing with these, you have to use the -p option (even if it's only -p0). What is your patch command line? --Ben