https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17724
Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2009-02-28 21:33:48 UTC --- (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 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
