On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:59:59PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > > [snip] > > > > You need to apply the patch before building the deb, obviously. > > Don't use the '-b' option to apt-get. > > > > cd /foodir > > apt-get source xxxx > > cd xxxx-* > > > > >> apply patch << > > > > fakeroot debian/rules binary > > su - > > dpkg -i /foodir/xxxx*.deb > > > > Cheers, Joost > > I still can't apply the patch, and am unable to understand why. The > man page gives no examples and all the notes I kept on applying > kernel patches do not help here.
Did you also read the patch manpage? man patch > What I have is:- > > a. /foodir, containing, foo_xxxx.tar.gz, foo_xxxxx.diff and > foo_xxxxx.dsc (all obtained by 'apt-get source foo') There should also be a foo-xxxx directory. If not, run dpkg-source -x foo_xxx.dsc to create it. > b. foo-xxx.patch which I placed in the same directory (although I > believe it's not necessary to place it here) cd foo-xxxx patch -p0 --dry-run < ../foo-xxx.patch The "--dry-run" option makes patch not actually do anything. That way, you can figure out if you need -p0 or -p1 or if there are just too many rejects to apply the patch as a whole. > With a wide variety of commands, all I get is a complete failure > along the following lines. There is a .orig file which is an exact > copy ot the original .tar.gz and the reject file which contains > virtually all the patch file:- Don't patch the tarball, patch the unpacked tree inside the tarball. > -------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/nullmailer$ patch -p0 nullmailer_1.00RC5.tar.gz > nullmailer-helohost > .patch > patching file `nullmailer_1.00RC5.tar.gz' > Hunk #1 FAILED at 20. > Hunk #2 FAILED at 31. > Hunk #3 FAILED at 142. > 3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to nullmailer_1.00RC5.tar.gz.rej > -------- No good. :-) > I presume the .dsc file is Debian specific and will not be needed > until I create a .deb from the patched source file. Also I've tried > to look at the source file (using 'zcat') and the patch file (using > 'cat'), but just do not have the knowledge to work out what starts > the process. I'm told the patch has been tested and works. > > What am I doing wrong or overlooking. Your version of apt-get doesn't auto unpack sources. I incorrectly assumed that it would. Cheers, Joost
