On 08-Oct-2002 pa3gcu wrote: > On Tuesday 08 October 2002 00:55, Marco Calistri wrote: >> What does it means and how can I correct? > > It means the patch failed, a copy of the failure was written to > securetar.c.rej . > > I took a look at the old file from the arcive and the patch, what i found is > that the origanal code has tabs before text in the .c file and the patch > itself has "whitespaces" . > > If one reads 'man patch' we see that the -l option "ignores" the difference. > > So you need to use; > > patch -pX -l < patch-file > The X i am sure you will understand, subtitute according to which directory > you run the patch from. > > Works here for me against a clean amavis-0.2.1 source. > > snip. > > > -- > Regards Richard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
Many thanks Richard the patching ran flawlessly after I learned something more from you... Greetings,Marco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
