Re: [PATCH] Update pom-ng docs for new iptables snapshots

[Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>]

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On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:50:10PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> We can do that, but for now I would prefer this patch since I don't
> have the time for checking whether we still want anything.
>
> The patch doesn't apply cleanly though:
>
> patching file README
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 2.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file README.rej
>
> Not sure what the problem is ...

Neither am I, as I just verified it applies cleanly against
patch-o-matic-ng-20080814 snapshot.  Snapshot not reflecting SVN or
git reality?  Attached again to be sure.

Phil

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diff -ruN pom-orig/README pom-new/README
--- pom-orig/README	2008-08-01 14:55:55.000000000 -0700
+++ pom-new/README	2008-08-02 16:03:04.000000000 -0700
@@ -2,9 +2,13 @@
    This is the patch-o-matic-ng distribution by the netfilter project
    (http://www.netfilter.org/)
 
-   As of iptables-1.2.7, patch-o-matic is distributed as a seperate
+   As of iptables-1.2.7, patch-o-matic is distributed as a separate
    package, available from ftp://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/patch-o-matic-ng.
 
+   NOTE: if you are building against an unreleased (snapshot) version
+   of iptables, make sure you have run release.sh in the iptables tree.
+   Otherwise, runme will fail as it won't find the iptables Makefile.
+
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