On Wednesday, 04 January 2006 at 22:13, Charles Lepple wrote: > On 1/3/06, Rogue Marechal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For a start I am getting a fuzz warning of 1. I read and reread the man > > page and I more or less understand what that means but still I can't find > > the offending spot. I guess finding it would help clear out a lot of > > things. > > [Note: I just checked the tracker, and apparently dmacks suggested > essentially the same thing already. I find the mailing list to be a > bit easier to search, so I'm posting anyway:] > > * extract the original tarball > * (apply any prerequisite patches; doesn't sound like this applies) > * copy the tree to something.orig > * apply your patch > * do a quick sanity-check on the altered file ( > * run 'diff -Naur' (or whatever they currently suggest in the patch > man page) between the original tree and the patched tree to regenerate > the fuzzy patch [dmacks suggested "diff -Nurd -x'*~'"] and save to a > new patch file.
fwiw quilt makes some of this more convenient: 1. extract the original tarball 2. quilt import oldpatch 3. quilt push 4. quilt refresh and presto, the patches directory now has a nice unfuzzy patch. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
