[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.20 release.

[Mark Sapiro]

On 03/31/2015 01:49 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 
> Just wondering if I am missing something here ..
> 
> (23:48:22 <~/Tools/Mailman/2.1.20>) 0 $ cd mailman-2.1.20
> (23:48:27 <~/Tools/Mailman/2.1.20/mailman-2.1.20>) 0 $ patch < ../index_htdig.patch.2.1.20


The proper command is 'patch -p1 < ../index_htdig.patch.2.1.20'

See 'man patch' for more info.


> Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -ruP 2.1.20/bin/blow_away_htdig 2.1.20p/bin/blow_away_htdig
> |--- 2.1.20/bin/blow_away_htdig 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
> |+++ 2.1.20p/bin/blow_away_htdig        2015-03-31 11:24:52.000000000 -0700
> --------------------------
> (Creating file blow_away_htdig...)
> Patching file blow_away_htdig using Plan A...
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 1.


You probably want to 'rm blow_away_htdig' before trying again.


> Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -ruP 2.1.20/bin/check_perms 2.1.20p/bin/check_perms
> |--- 2.1.20/bin/check_perms     2015-03-31 11:22:52.000000000 -0700
> |+++ 2.1.20p/bin/check_perms    2015-03-31 11:24:52.000000000 -0700
> --------------------------
> File to patch: <================================================= Stops
> here..


because it couldn't find the file to patch because of the missing '-p1'

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