David Stutzman wrote: > Sorry for my lack of knowledge on this topic. I am asking here rather > than in the bug I need this information for because I hope it might be > helpful to others in my situation. I searched the old newsgroup and > this one for the information and nothing jumped out at me. If it's > elsewhere, feel free to point me. > > What is the official procedure for generating/applying a patch to NSS? > > When I created the example patch I attached to the bug in question I > just used the official NSS 3.11.2 sources that I extracted from a > tarball downloaded from > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/ and used > diff on a linux system. The patch I have been asked to verify I > attempted to apply to 3.11.2, 3.11.3, and 3.11 sources (using the patch > command on a linux system) and over half of the changeblocks were > rejected and when I began to manually apply the changes I see the code > is organized diferently. > > Should I be using CVS source for both creating and verifying a patch? > Should I be using the patch command?
David, I think you're referring to bug 348882. The patch attached to that bug is for the trunk, not for any of the NSS 3.11.x release tags on the NSS_3_11_BRANCH. To apply it, you'll need to pull NSS from the trunk, then use the patch command to apply the patch. Please advise if that is a problem. To create a patch, you should always use the "cvs diff -u" command, IMO. > Dave _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
