On 9/15/20 10:44 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote:

> 
> I guess I don't know how to use patch. Better documentation would be
> helpful.


man patch?


> # patch --verbose -i ../mailman-FHS.patch
> 
> Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
> can't find file to patch at input line 5
> Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |Only in mailman-2.1.5.FHS: autom4te.cache
> |diff -r -u mailman-2.1.5.orig/bin/check_perms
> mailman-2.1.5.FHS/bin/check_perms
> |--- mailman-2.1.5.orig/bin/check_perms    2003-03-31 15:07:55.000000000
> -0500
> |+++ mailman-2.1.5.FHS/bin/check_perms    2004-10-08 16:05:09.000000000
> -0400
> --------------------------
> File to patch:
> 
> Before I screw it up, is it wanting to patch the file listed in the diff
> command (i.e. check_perms)? I also assume I need to use -u.


If you are in the directory that you unpacked the Mailman 2.1.34 tarball
into, do

patch -p1 < /path/to/mailman-FHS.patch

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