> [Jeremy Portzer] > Normally, the command is > patch -p0 < filename.diff > > Make sure you are cd'd into the source directory before running > that.
not that it matters, but normally if you're above the src dir, it's -p0 (since the convention, at least from what i've seen, is that diff's are made one above the src dir, like "diff -ruN linux.orig/ linux.new/" or whatever. Hence, if you're inside the src dir, by this convention you'd need to -p1 to strip off the linux/ part of the diff file before applying the patch. IMHO, patch should really find the first non-new file (file with additions with pre-existing lines or one with deletions and therefore, required to already exist) and try to figure out the -p number if not already provided based on stat'ing it relative to current with parents stripped off til a match is found. Worst-case, spit out said results as a suggested -p value for a second patch run. (expecting the normal response) I'll add it on the end of my todo list :) James -- James Manning <http://www.sublogic.com/james/> GPG Key fingerprint = B913 2FBD 14A9 CE18 B2B7 9C8E A0BF B026 EEBB F6E4 _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
