You are quite correct - you can't patch the .tar or the .tar.gz file. What
you need to do is to get the source files and unpack them into a source
directory.
You then place your patch file in the same place.
You CD into the source directory and apply the patchfile to the source via
'patch'. Like you say, it'll probably be something like 'patch -p0 <
patchfile'. All that's going to do is change the actual source files for
blackbox. It'll look at the source, look at the relevant bit of the
patchfile and work out how it needs to change each sourcefile to make it
look "tie-up" with the patchfile.
Providing that works, you can then compile your newly patched blackbox
sources and install it.
Which bit is giving you problems?
Steve Flynn
NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lionel Pitaru [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Please!!!!!!! FW: [newbie] HowTO patch
"So I have a lot of modularised and light weight patchs for my
window
manager" . . . that is blackbox-0.61.1. I have one of many patches
called
toolbar_menu.patch.
The man patch page said that it usually requiers just to make a
patch -p0
(for example) < toolbar_menu.patch in the directory where the
"sources"
(what this mean, just the blackbox archive, the tar.gz, the entire
folder of
sources before compiling?), but this dosen't work. It tries to patch
and
tell me that some file isn't there so i must specify the file, and i
don't
know what to do.
There isn't a way to apply patches to the entiry blackbox.tar.gz?
Mmmm,
sounds stupid?
Well, that's it . . .
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:37 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Please!!!!!!! FW: [newbie] HowTO patch
Well, what exactly are you trying to patch and why?
It's a bit like say "I have this vehicle, please tell me how to
change the
cam belt". The answer usually depends on what kind of vehicle it is.
From your message it sounds like you are attempting to apply patches
to
BlackBox 0.6.1.1. Correct?
Steve Flynn
NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
* 01603 687386
-----Original Message-----
From: Lionel Pitaru [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please!!!!!!! FW: [newbie] HowTO patch
Please!!!! Help me with this!
Hello
Call me dummy, but, after reading the man page of patch I
sill can't
make it
owrk well.
I'm using Mandrake 8.0 and BlackBox 0.61.1 as my window
manager,
without any
other desktop manager. So I have a lot of modularised and
light
weight
patchs for my window manager.
What I have to do with the patch's files? Please take in
count that
I'm a
very basic user of Linux.
Thanks
Lionel
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