On Nov 13, 2007 3:38 PM, Roman Morokutti <roman.morokutti at gmail.com> wrote: > Could me someone please explain for what these > spec files are.
Check the FAQ at http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra And also the document at http://opensource.shivakumar.info/packages/PKGTOOL_documentation.02.pdf > What would be the exact way to > integrate the patch from ftp://the-nelsons.org/pub > into an existing installation? > Any contribution related to spec files is to be addressed to the desktop community mailing list since the desktop community is the one that uses the spec files approach. > 1. Use patch or gpatch respectively? Use gpatch to apply the patch: gpatch -p1 < path-to-patchfile > 2. What would be the command exactly to patch? diff -ur foo-dir.orig foo-dir.patched > foo-nn-YourOwnComment.diff OR diff -u foo-file.orig foo-file.patched > foo-nn-YourOwnComment.diff > 3. Do I have to rebuild something? > 4. If so, where to get the sources? > At the minimum all the specs that depend on this spec needs to be rebuilt and tested. gdm.spec is part of JDS. It needs considerable patching to be able to build and work on OpenSolaris based system. Checkout the JDS repository as mentioned at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building and check the specs already available there. gdm.spec is present as well. If you specify the nature of changes being submitted. The members in the desktop-discuss alias (marked) should be able to help. regards Shiv
