Hello Thomas. Thanks for the quick reply. I think I understand most of this now. I still have two questions.
1. How do I download the patch to apply? I looked at bugzilla and at the svn web site and couldn't figure this out. 2. How do I know which patches to download and apply? Is there a way to see a list of all uncommitted doc patches? I know to do patch #439974. Are there others I should also do? Thanks again. Mark Dexter On 7/30/07, Thomas Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:04:59AM -0700, Mark Dexter & Deb Cowley wrote: > > Hello again, Thomas. I have tried to work through the instructions in > your > > e-mail below, but I still have some questions. I apologize for being > such a > > newbie on this stuff, but I'm anxious to learn more about how this > process > > works. The good news is that I have written some additional > documentation > > for the Object Alignment area as well as for text entry. So I just need > to > > figure out how to get this back into the repository without breaking > > anything. > > You and me cannot write back the stuff ourselves: that is maintainer's > work. All we have to do is to post the patches in bugzilla. > > > Here are my specific questions. > > > > 1. I did the command "svn co > > http://svn.gnome.org/svn/dia/trunk/doc/en< > http://svn.gnome.org/svn/dia/trunk/doc/en/usage-objects.xml>" > > and it appears to have built a local copy of the repository. > > Correct, good point. > > > 2. I did the command "svn update" and it says "At revision 3732." > > OK > > > 3. I think I know how to make the file edits I want to make, but I'm not > > clear about how to find and commit uncommitted changes (e.g., #439974 > and > > any others). Is there an svn command I need to run to do this? > > Simply download the patch you want to apply, then go into the top of > source directory you created with svn, and run: > patch -p0 < /path/to-the-diff > > > 4. I think I know how to do the svn diff command to put my local changes > > back into the main repository. I'm running the Windows version of svn, > but I > > assume that doesn't matter? > > You think with reason. To obtain a new patch with yur changes, go back > again into top of source directory, then run > svn diff -x '-u' > ../diff > > Note that if you have created new files/dictory, you have to run "svn > add myfile" before (that's true for the new files I added into my patch, > too). > > > 5. I'm not clear about the "hardcopies makefile" you talk about. In my > local > > directory, there is a file called Makefile.am. Is this the file? How do > I > > run it? > > No, the hardcopies.makefile comes along with the diff from bug #439974. > While you do not have applied this one, file never comes. > > > 6. I have docbook loaded (under cygwin) and I can do docbook examples. I > > assume I can find "jw" and "openjade" with cygwin. Are these what I use > to > > run the Makefile.am? > > No, they are not needed by the vanilla Makefile (and you need to run > configure to create it from Makefile.am) > > You need them only to create hard copies (postscript, html and pdf), not > for the normal compile/install of dia. > > > Again, I apologize for my lack of experience with this. If it would be > > That doesn't matter, anyone have the same problem one day or other! > > > easier for you, I can just edit the specific xml files and e-mail them > to > > you or someone. Otherwise, I'm happy to keep plugging away on this. > Thanks > > again. Mark Dexter > > Your will. If you choose to make it yourself, and experience problems > you don't figure how to solve, feel free to send me personal e-mails. > > > Regards, > -- > Thomas Harding > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > -- Mark Dexter
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