From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 29 13:25:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA10626 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:25:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from chromatic.com ([199.5.224.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10613 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:25:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from krypton.chromatic.com (krypton.chromatic.com [199.5.224.4]) by chromatic.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id NAA28291; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:24:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by krypton.chromatic.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04882; Thu, 29 Feb 96 13:24:57 PST Message-Id: <9602292124.AA04882@krypton.chromatic.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Ben Jackson Cc: beta@XFree86.Org, 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 1996 13:11:03 PST." <199602292111.NAA06009@eng4.sequent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:24:56 -0800 From: Ernest Hua Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > [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? Ok. Before anyone responds (but I do appreciate it) on the issues of "did you use the right options" etc ... I did already make sure that I used "-p -E" as specified by the patch files. When I did this twice (two precisely the same passes using the same tree in the same state with the same patch files) I got two different sets of errors. That is why I do not think this problem is specific to XFree86. Ern