[ale] Applying patches

[James P. Kinney III]

It's pretty easy.

cd to the top of the source tree to be patched. Then 
"patch -p1 <../patchfile"  (that has been unzipped first)

There's a way to do it from the zipped patch as well:
gzcat ../patchfile.gz | patch -p1

Sometimes patch will whine about the -p number being wrong right from
the beginning. It depends on the process used to make the patch. If it
whines with a -p1, try a -p0. The number determines how many levels of
directory structure to strip off the beginning of file names. 

It only gets fun when the patch doesn't apply cleanly.

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 08:32, hbbs at attbi.com wrote:
> Investigating the new patch to the Samba tree has brought up a glaring
> deficiency:  I don't know how to do patches.  
> 
> I'm referring to patches distributed as difference files with names in the form
> patch-<version_or_whatever>.diffs.gz.  I've looked at such a file's innards and
> it looks like it's meant to be executed as a script, but I don't quite get what
> the "standard procedure" is supposed to be.  Do you drop the diffs file in the
> top of the source tree and execute, or what?
> 
> - Jeff
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