Re: [gentoo-dev] reformatting a patch -- first ebuild

[Jay Goodman Tamboli]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 06:53:47AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 03:40, Eivind Tagseth wrote:
> > * Jay Goodman Tamboli <jay@×××××××.cx> [2004-01-31 16:03:47 -0500]:
> >
> > > I'm trying to create an ebuild for streamripper that includes the HTTP
> > > authentication patch from
> > > <http://radsoft.com/~cdb/pub/streamripper-httpauth.patch>.  To get it to
> > > build, I had to download the patch, edit it to change "old" to "work.orig"
> > > and "new" to "work",
> >
> > Sounds to me like you should rather be running patch with -p 1 (or -p 2)?
>
> ...or simply try using epatch and see if that solves the problems for
> you.  I would stick the patch in SRC_URI to point to the original
> author's page, then epatch ${DISTFILES}/patchname

Without bzip2ing the file, I got a file format not recognized error, and it
appeared to me that the patch file needed work and work.orig as paths.
Regardless, the patch and ebuild are now in bugs.gentoo.org (#40028).

/jgt
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