As the start of an experimental service, discussed at an EMBOSS developers' meeting, I've created a 'patches' directory on the anonymous ftp server:
ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/fixes/patches/ The purpose of this directory is to provide UNIX 'patch' (context diff) files. These should make EMBOSS easier to update between releases as you only need to apply one patch rather than all the individual fixes from the directory above. This depends on your system having the 'patch' command installed. As it is an experimental service there may be the odd dragon lurking. Let us know if you find one. I append the README.patch file from the above directory which explains how to use the patch files. Alan The file(s) in this directory are standard UNIX 'patch' files and can be used to update the base EMBOSS release with all the fixes given in: ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/fixes/README.fixes The filenames are of the format 'patch-1-X.gz' where 'X' represents the last fix incorporated: so a file called patch-1-10.gz will incorporate fixes from Fix 1 to Fix 10 as given in the README.fixes file. To update the base EMBOSS installation (where x.y.z is the version): 1. Download a fresh EMBOSS-x.y.z.tar.gz and unpack it with gunzip and tar. 2. Download the required patch file. 3. cd EMBOSS-x.y.z 4. gunzip -c /somewhere/patch-1-X.gz | patch -p1 or 1-3 as above 4. gunzip /somewhere/patch-1-X.gz patch -p1 < /somewhere/patch-1-X Then configure EMBOSS as normal. N.B. (27th Aug 2006): This is a new method for providing updates and therefore not tested in anger by the community. Please let us know of any problems. _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
