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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: Eivind Tagseth <eivindt@××××××××.no>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reformatting a patch -- first ebuild
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:57:48
Message-Id: 1075722827.17716.0.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] reformatting a patch -- first ebuild by Eivind Tagseth
1 On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 03:40, Eivind Tagseth wrote:
2 > * Jay Goodman Tamboli <jay@×××××××.cx> [2004-01-31 16:03:47 -0500]:
3 >
4 > > I'm trying to create an ebuild for streamripper that includes the HTTP
5 > > authentication patch from
6 > > <http://radsoft.com/~cdb/pub/streamripper-httpauth.patch>. To get it to
7 > > build, I had to download the patch, edit it to change "old" to "work.orig"
8 > > and "new" to "work",
9 >
10 > Sounds to me like you should rather be running patch with -p 1 (or -p 2)?
11
12 ...or simply try using epatch and see if that solves the problems for
13 you. I would stick the patch in SRC_URI to point to the original
14 author's page, then epatch ${DISTFILES}/patchname
15
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