> i would like to extend my amanda backup capabitities to one of my DEC v5.1 > boxes. the problem is it's running advfs. I've downloaded the patch and > tried to install it unsuccessfully for about a week now. however, i've > never used `patch` and i'm running into a wall on this one. > > could someone perhaps offer some assistance or point me to a website i could > read up on the "patch" binary some more. for example, DEC includes its own > version of `patch`. do i have to use gnu patch? can i use the dec patch?
Though I've no idea of DEC's version of patch, but I'd recommend GNU patch. Then you do something like: cd /usr/local/src tar xzf /where/ever/you/stored/amanda-2.4.2p2.tar.gz cd amanda-2.4.2p2 patch -p1 < /where/ever/you/lost/advfs-patch.diff The -p option specifies the number of subdir levels to strip off in the diff file, i.e. the might be something like: +++ amanda-2.4.2p2/client/sendsize.c ... --- amanda-2.4.2p2-orig/client/sendsize.c ... So -p1 is to strip off the first level of subdir to apply the diff / to patch client/sendsize.c.
