From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: Re: How do you apply patches to source code? Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 19:40:22 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1043.1053956422@localhost.localdomain> References: Return-path: In-Reply-To: Message from Ken Moffat of "Mon, 26 May 2003 13:42:35 +0100." List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org In message , Ken Moffat writes: > On Mon, 26 May 2003, Robert wrote: > > > I have recently obtained the source code to an application as a .src.rpm > > file. I have unbundled the code into /usr/src/RPMS/SOURCES. There are a > > whole lot of .patch.bz2 files in the directory, as well as the main .tar.bz > 2 > > file. > > > > How do I compile the program with the patches? > > > > I realise this is probably an easy one, but I can't find any documentation > > about applying patches. > > > > Robert. > > > > I believe that every .src.rpm has a file telling rpm how to build it, > maybe called specfile, and there is some option you give to rpm to build > this (see `man rpm'). On slightly older systems, this command is rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm On newer systems, it's rpmbuild --rebuild package.src.rpm Try the latter first. Notice that you never have to see the contents of the source rpm file. You only need to run the above commands on it. Everything is automatically taken care of. > Of course, if you _want_ to build it by hand for some reason, you > first need to unpack the .tar.bz2 (probably with > tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2), then cd into the directory it creates and > run `bzcat ../patchname.patch.bz2 | patch -p1' for each patch, then > build it as normal (typically ./configure ; make ; make install) - > you'll want to see what options configure will support or need. > > But, you probably still need the specfile or whatever to tell you in > what order the packages should be applied. Logically, the specfile should specify rules for automatically applying patches, or what would be the convenience (to the user) of having the patches? > > Sorry I can't be more help, but `rpm' has broken on the only box I've > got it on. > > Ken HTH, Yawar Amin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs