On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 09:47:26 +0000 William John Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

   *) Getting the patches from the WWW archive was a pain. I
had to save the page, rename it to xxx.patch, emacs it to discover
that emacs will not edit patches (it knows they shouldn't be touched?)
vi it to extract the patches, see they were for 1.3.77 but the email was
about snap-14-01-05, sed all the changes, apply the patches, find that
half of them did not work, sed s/-gt;/>/g, still the 'rlim' patch was
not recognised by my system and I had to manually fix it, and then guess
the 'small ftrace.c demangle' which Matthew referred to.

Note that there's nothing that says a patch needs to be named xxx.patch.
And yes, downloading patches as HTML is a pain, because you need to convert HTML entities to the characters they represent. Note that in addition to '>', you're also likely to find '<' and '&' encoded as entities.


If the patch you're interested in has been committed to CVS, you can use CVSweb to examine and download the diffs for each file or for the whole delta. It should be noted that a copy of the CVS repository can be found in /afs/.grand.central.org/project/openafs/cvs

If the patch you're interested in was submitted to openafs-bugs, you can download the patch from RT in a usable form. In general, folks who want to publicly distribute patches that they are not going to submit to RT should think about putting them somewhere on the web or in AFS.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Sr. Research Systems Programmer
  School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
  Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA

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