Re: garnome 2.17.4 / hal-0.5.8.1 patch trick?

[Peter <sw98234 hotmail com>]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:39:32 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:

> That's weird.  Let me try.
> 
> [using patch version 2.5.4]
> 
>         % make extract
>         
>         % cd work/main.d/hal-0.5.8.1
>         
>         % patch -p1 < ../../../files/hal-0.5.8.1-fixppc.patch 
>         patching file hald/linux/probing/probe-smbios.c
>         patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
>         patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
>         patching file hald/linux/pmu.c
>         patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
>         patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
>         patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
> 
> Works fine.
> 
> -Joseph

I omitted that I was using dry-run. Since hunks were not being
patched, as patch continued, it would fail worse and worse. I usually
always test patches first before applying and in this case it caused
problems. Sorry to be a bother!

-- 
Peter