https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17724


Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]>  2009-02-28 21:33:48 
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(In reply to comment #0)
> >> How does one apply mediawiki-1.14.0.patch.gz and
> >> mediawiki-i18n-1.14.0.patch.gz to mediawiki-1.14.0rc1 to produce
> >> mediawiki-1.14.0?
> >> 
> >> # ls mediawiki-1.14.0rc1
> >> # zcat mediawiki-1.14.0.patch.gz | patch
> >> can't find file to patch at input line 4
> >> Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
> RK> I think you have to use -p1 here.
> 
> Doesn't work.
> 
> Without proper instructions commented into the tops of mediawiki patch
> files, they are next to worthless.
> 
> The instructions should say
> # 1) cd to the directory where you have the directory tree to be
> # patched, and put the patch files there.
> # 2) ls should now show you
> # $ ls -dl mediawiki-*
> # -rw-r--r--  1 fuz fuz    5310 2009-02-26 07:10 mediawiki-1.14.0.patch.gz
> # drwxr-xr-x 15 fuz fuz    2048 2009-02-26 20:22 mediawiki-1.14.0rc1
> # -rw-r--r--  1 fuz fuz 1952692 2009-02-26 07:10 
> mediawiki-i18n-1.14.0.patch.gz
> # 3) proceed with the patching as follows
> # $ zcat mediawiki-1.14.0.patch.gz | patch -......
> # $ zcat mediawiki-i18n-1.14.0 | patch -......
> # 4) ls should now show
> # $ ls -dl mediawiki-*
> # ....
> 

Knowing how to apply a patch is not something MediaWiki should be documenting
IMO; people who download a patch instead of a full tarball should know how to
apply a patch or at least be prepared to find out. Recommend WONTFIX


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