Is there any option to patch that will prevent it from attempting to access the file names specified in the patch files? I've been seeing some strange behaviour with patch taking a very long time on some patches, and when I finally got around to checking with strace to see what was causing it to be so slow, I found that it was looking for automounted files on non-existent systems so was waiting for NFS timeouts.
I've also had problems in the past where an old version of a file that's named in one of the diff lines is on the system, and patch fails because it appears to use that file in addition to what's in the patch file itself. I would like to be able to either build patch so that it doesn't attempt to find the files referenced in the ``diff'' lines of the patch file, or have a run-time option that would tell patch to use only the information in the existing file, and the patch file. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society that is coming, where everyone would be interdependent.'' 1899 John Dewey, educational philosopher, proponent of modern public schools. ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
