Re: Problems applying patches

2008-11-18 Thread Dan
Thank you very much for the fast reply. Stephane Chazelas wrote: I'm not sure why you need to do all that. Here, I do: [...] Maybe you've got too old a version of the "patch" utility. Here, patch --version gives me: patch 2.5.9 [...] Well, I have this exact same version of the patch progr

Re: Problems applying patches

2008-11-18 Thread Stephane Chazelas
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:09:19PM +, Dan wrote: [...] > Questions: > 1) Does my guide (see below) for applying the patches make sense? I > couldn't see any other way to make this work without creating the symbolic > links and using the -p0 option as recommended by Chet. The steps in the > g

Problems applying patches

2008-11-18 Thread Dan
Apologies if this is all "basic" or "dumb" and I hope this is the correct mailing list. Also, I tried posting this before but it doesn't appear to have worked, so I'm trying again. Apologies for any duplication. I'm a bit of newbie when it comes to patching Linux software, and I have been ha