On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:55:57AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > I usually extract the new one (or apply a patch if that is the method), > > gunzip -dc old_version.diff.gz > somefile, then edit that 'somefile' and > > replace all instances of progdirectory-1.2.0 with progdirectory-1.2.1. > > Then apply that new diff with patch -p0 < somefile. And then clean up the > > .rej and .orig files and apply the missing stuff manually. > > The editing isn't necessary. > > Simply patch -p1 < somefile and it will ignore the first directory > component (the versioned directory).
Cool! So, I should just do cd prog-oldversion; zcat ../prog_oldversion.diff.gz | patch -p1 and it will work? I'll try. ADC, is this procedure mentioned in newest developer's reference? -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
