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> From: R P Herrold
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Sent: Tue, June 15, 2010 4:14:03 PM
> Subject: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Frank Cox wrote:
> I just found the slickest tool
> to compare files.
>
> meld
>
> "yum install meld" w
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 12:17 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> The point is to see where changes are happening, and to be
> able to cherry pick in a migration toward the latest [but
> being able to spot the deltas from the prior version], which,
> as I understood it, was your goal
I just found the sl
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:06 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote:
> Where did the original SRPM come from?
rpmfusion.
> What was it of/for?
vice-2.1-3.src.rpm
> Does the original source repository/group exist anymore?
> ... someone else may have already been here with the product you are
> looking at.
Frank Cox wrote, On 06/15/2010 11:51 AM:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 02:44 -0700, John Doe wrote:
>> I am afraid patch is not able to auto-magicaly adapt an old patch to a
>> heavily modified file...
>
> That's what I was afraid of. I was hoping, however, that there might be
> some way to verify that
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 12:17 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> The point is to see where changes are happening, and to be
> able to cherry pick in a migration toward the latest [but
> being able to spot the deltas from the prior version], which,
> as I understood it, was your goal
I can see that. Ho
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 08:55 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> > First, am I going about this the right way?
>
> no -- Usually one unrolls the old tree, applies the patches to
> the old; and then unrolls the new in a directory 'next to' the
> first, and diffs from a point above the top of each
What w
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 02:44 -0700, John Doe wrote:
> I am afraid patch is not able to auto-magicaly adapt an old patch to a
> heavily modified file...
That's what I was afraid of. I was hoping, however, that there might be
some way to verify that everything in the patch has now been done in the
Frank Cox wrote:
> I am attempting to create a rpm of the latest version of a program. The
> rpm for the previous version contains a number of patch files that make
> numerous changes various files in the tar.gz as downloaded from the
> project's website so it will work properly on Linux.
>
> The
From: Frank Cox
> ... some of the files that need to be patched have
> had some stuff moved around a bit, just enough
> to (apparently) cause patch to fail...
> ... By way of experimentation, I manually changed one of the files
> ... is there a way to automate the process...
I am afraid patch is
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