Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:01:20 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> Subject: Re: patching? Message-ID: <200502172301.21173.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <1108708501.71774.3.camel@dirk.no.domain> References: <20050217190549.72c4eb4d@dolphin.local.net> <006201c51582$980f04a0$7702a8c0@officeeagle> <1108708501.71774.3.camel@dirk.no.domain>
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On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:35 pm, Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:24 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > make install > > ===> Extracting for sguil-server-0.5.3 > > => Checksum OK for sguil-server-0.5.3.tar.gz. > > ===> Patching for sguil-server-0.5.3 > > ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for sguil-server-0.5.3 > > Ignoring previously applied (or reversed) patch. > > 1 out of 1 hunks ignored--saving rejects to > > server/archive_sguildb.tcl.rej => Patch patch-archive_sguildb.tcl > > failed to apply cleanly. *** Error code 1 > > As the error says, are the patches reversed? ie. perhaps you have > incorrectly run > > diff -urN file file.orig > > instead of the correct > > diff -urN file.orig file Sometimes I get this problem if I forget to use the -p flag when patching (from the /usr/ports/ directory): # patch -p0 < /path/to/patchfile But this also depends on how the patch is written. You might already know how to patch, but what the heck. The first time I made a patch I did it incorrectly and reversed it when running diff, like Sam's example above. - jt
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