Peter Szekszardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I will take a look on that. Maybe modifying an existing c++ > program is not like rocket science... But I'm not going to write a > patch, as I do not know how to do that.
20 Steps to making a patch: 1. cd package-dir 2. cd src-dir 3. cp file_to_change to file_to_change.orig 4. change file_to_change 5. make sure everything works 6. cd package-dir 7. man diff 8. diff -bu src-dir/file_to_change.orig src-dir/file_to_change > patch 9. cd somewhere_else 10. get original package 11. unpack original package 12. cd original_package-dir 13. cp /wherever/it/was/patch . 14. man patch 15. patch < patch 16. compile 17. check it works 18. nodd 19. smile 20. submit patch -Jan (correct me if I made mistakes) -- http://www.netmeister.org http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/
