On 11/5/2010 9:59 PM, Barry Smith wrote: > First, I'm not using Mandriva. > I'm using Ubuntu. > > I have used Linux part-time for almost 6 years until a month ago, when I > switched to using it full-time. I have installed and re-installed two > versions of Ubuntu, and finally upgraded to 10.10 (maverick) all within > a month. > > I have been through two compiles and installs of > remove-duplicates-0.0.4, found out when I upgraded to Lucid (10.04) that > Evolution added remove-duplicates as an ePlugin, and have just found out > that they disabled it. > > Is there a "How-to" somewhere that details (for the beginning user) how > to apply a patch... like the patch attached to > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587011 in the file > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=172408 . http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+apply+a+patch&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a basically, cd into the proper directory based on where the patch was created and |patch -p0 < patch-file-name-here| this link http://www.linuxhq.com/patch-howto.html provides a quick tutorial > Which version of Evolution does the patch apply to, and is the code > required still in current Evo source just not used? If the code was > removed that is needed for the patch, what else do I have to download? you can look at the patch, and the files that it applies to in the source that you download to see if it's already applied. I don't recall offhand which version the patch was for > Sidebar -- Okay... stupid question -- What is needed to decide > that remove-duplicates was actually a useful function that was > highly desired, and the next release of evolution will include > the plugin again? Just asking... since someone write a patch to > re-enable it. > > To this programmer (IOW me), the "patch" looks like a diff report (or a > SuperC report from my mainframe days, or a Merge report from my MS-DOS & > Windoze programming days). it is essentially a diff, the patch program looks for the appropriate place in the 'file to be patched' and does some checks and inserts/removes the changes > After my upgrade to maverick, Evolution is reporting Evolution 2.30.3... > yet the IRC #evolution at irg.gnome.org channel is talking about > Evolution 2.32.0... > > What original source do I need to "patch"? Where is it? > Oh yeah... how do I patch the source once I download it?
original source -> http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/download.shtml ubuntu source... http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/maverick/evolution http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/maverick/evolution-data-server http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/maverick/xxxxxxxxxx etc > Ubuntu synaptic will give me access to none of the source module > packages (at this moment), but it will give me access to the following > packages -- > evolution (2.30.3-1ubuntu7) installed > evolution-common (2.30.3-1ubuntu7) installed > evolution-couchdb (0.5.0-0ubuntu1) installed > evolution-data-server (2.30.3-2ubuntu2) installed > evolution-data-server-common (2.30.3-2ubuntu2) installed > evolution-data-server-dbg (2.30.3-2ubuntu2) NOT installed > evolution-data-server-dev (2.30.3-2ubuntu2) NOT installed > evolution-dbg (2.30.3-1ubuntu7) NOT installed > evolution-dev (2.30.3-1ubuntu7) installed > evolution-exchange (2.30.3-0ubuntu2) installed > evolution-exchange-dgb (2.30.3-0ubuntu2) NOT installed > evolution-indicator (0.2.10-0ubuntu1) installed > evolution-mapi (0.30.3-1ubuntu1) NOT installed > evolution-mapi-dgb (0.30.3-1ubuntu1) NOT installed > evolution-plugins (2.30.3-1ubuntu7) installed > evolution-plugins-experimental (2.30.3-1ubuntu7) NOT > installed > evolution-rss (0.2.0-1) NOT installed > evolution-webcal (2.28.1-1) installed > Full list of other "evolution" packages installed... > libebackend1.2-0 (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libebook1.2-9 (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libebook1.2-dev (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libecal1.2-7 (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libedata-book1.2-2 (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libedata-cal1.2-7 (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libedataserver1.2-13 (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libedataserver1.2-dev (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libedataserverui1.2-8 (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libedataserverui1.2-dev (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libegroupwise1.2-13 (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libevolution (2.30.3-1ubuntu7), > libfolks-telepathy0 (0.1.17-0ubuntu2), > libfolks0 (0.1.17-0ubuntu2), > libgdata-google1.2-1 (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libgdata1.2-1 (2.30.3-2ubuntu2), > libpisock9 (0.12.5-2ubuntu1), > libpisync1 (0.12.5-2ubuntu1), > nautilus-sendto (2.32.0-0ubuntu1), > openoffice.org-gnome (1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1), > python-evolution (2.30.0-1ubuntu5), > > None of the packages appear to be source modules. > > Thank you for help, > > Barry Smith > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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