samba - Aug 2002 - Applying a Patch.

Hello all.

I sent a message to Jerry and the list, I see it didn't appear, must have
made an error.  Maybe that's good, I shouldn't hassle Jerry about minor
stuff.

I've never applied a patch.  What does it entail, I'm sure being a
rocket scientist isn't part of it?   I been to the site and seen the
patches, they look like scripts that can be run, is this the case?  How?  Do I
just type

# ./patchname    ?

Please can you give me an outline of what I must do.

Thanks, Trevor.

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please have a look to the following mail from Gerald Carter
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Carter [mailto:jerry@samba.org]
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 3:40 AM
To: Klopf, Tom
Cc: 'samba@lists.samba.org'
Subject: Re: [Samba] patching howto for samba?
 
 
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Klopf, Tom wrote:
> I've downloaded the patches released for 2.2.4, but, alas, I don't
know
> how to use "patch". Could someone point out a good how-to for
using gnu
> patch on redhat 7.3 ?
 
   # cd samba-2.2.4/source
   # make realclean
   # patch -p0 < $filename
   # ./configure --with-whatever-options
   # make
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Fraser [mailto:trevor@systematic.co.za]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:39 AM
To: Samba
Subject: [Samba] Applying a Patch.



Hello all.
 
I sent a message to Jerry and the list, I see it didn't appear, must have
made an error.  Maybe that's good, I shouldn't hassle Jerry about minor
stuff.
 
I've never applied a patch.  What does it entail, I'm sure being a
rocket
scientist isn't part of it?   I been to the site and seen the patches, they
look like scripts that can be run, is this the case?  How?  Do I just type 
 
# ./patchname    ?
 
Please can you give me an outline of what I must do.
 
Thanks, Trevor.
 
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Thank for the reply David.

What did you mean by 'source directory'?  Is this /usr/src/ in RH 7.3? 
And
the patches I copied are blahblah.txt, how would this change things.
Another thing, do I have to copy the file into the source directory before I
# patch -p1....?

Thanks, Trevor.

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most of the time, you would place yourself in the source dir and type
something like patch -p1 < patchfile-name
patchfile name being often something like blablabla.diff

 David