David Stutzman wrote:
Sorry for my lack of knowledge on this topic. I am asking here rather
than in the bug I need this information for because I hope it might be
helpful to others in my situation. I searched the old newsgroup and
this one for the information and nothing jumped out at me. If it's
elsewhere, feel free to point me.
What is the official procedure for generating/applying a patch to NSS?
When I created the example patch I attached to the bug in question I
just used the official NSS 3.11.2 sources that I extracted from a
tarball downloaded from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/ and used
diff on a linux system. The patch I have been asked to verify I
attempted to apply to 3.11.2, 3.11.3, and 3.11 sources (using the patch
command on a linux system) and over half of the changeblocks were
rejected and when I began to manually apply the changes I see the code
is organized diferently.
Should I be using CVS source for both creating and verifying a patch?
Should I be using the patch command?
It's better but not necessary to use CVS source for both creating
and verifying a patch.
If you use the CVS source, use the "cvs diff" command to generate
a patch. If you use the source tarball, use the diff command to
generate a patch.
Use the patch command to apply a patch.
Wan-Teh
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