Re: [CentOS] patching from different directory

2009-09-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 17:30, Carlos Santana wrote: > Is there any way to get absolute path in the diff o/p? Well, yes, if you run "diff" passing absolute pathnames then (I believe) it will create a path with absolute pathnames... (It might not, considering that this is not very useful. GNU

Re: [CentOS] patching from different directory

2009-09-10 Thread Carlos Santana
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 14:28, Carlos Santana wrote: >> Thanks Filipe. >> >> I can do it by cd-ing into file-to-be-patched dir. > > So, this means it's fixed for you? > >> I think the -d >> switch in patch command does similar

Re: [CentOS] patching from different directory

2009-09-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 14:28, Carlos Santana wrote: > Thanks Filipe. > > I can do it by cd-ing into file-to-be-patched dir. So, this means it's fixed for you? > I think the -d > switch in patch command does similar thing (cd). But then it assumes > diff file also to be present in that new

Re: [CentOS] patching from different directory

2009-09-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 14:34, nate wrote: > Could another option be to pipe the diff into patch via STDIN ? > > cat /path/to/filename.diff | patch -p0 That's exactly the same as: $ patch -p0 http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] patching from different directory

2009-09-10 Thread nate
Carlos Santana wrote: > Thanks Filipe. > > I can do it by cd-ing into file-to-be-patched dir. I think the -d > switch in patch command does similar thing (cd). But then it assumes > diff file also to be present in that new directory. > > I guess the problem is not having full dir path in the diff f

Re: [CentOS] patching from different directory

2009-09-10 Thread Carlos Santana
Thanks Filipe. I can do it by cd-ing into file-to-be-patched dir. I think the -d switch in patch command does similar thing (cd). But then it assumes diff file also to be present in that new directory. I guess the problem is not having full dir path in the diff file itself. The diff file mentions

Re: [CentOS] patching from different directory

2009-09-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 14:04, Carlos Santana wrote: > I have a diff file in my /var/tmp and would like to apply patch to a > file in a different directory (other than /va/tmp). I tried using > patch with -d switch, but that doesn't work. It complains abt  'patch: > Can't open patch file

[CentOS] patching from different directory

2009-09-10 Thread Carlos Santana
Howdy, I have a diff file in my /var/tmp and would like to apply patch to a file in a different directory (other than /va/tmp). I tried using patch with -d switch, but that doesn't work. It complains abt 'patch: Can't open patch file tilda.diff : No such file or directory'. Do I need to copy