Re: How to apply snapshot patches?

[Dmitry Semyonov <Dmitry Semyonov oktet ru>]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, David Sterba wrote:

> > Could anybody tell me a way to cleanly apply snapshot patches to
> > the reference (4.6.0) tree?
> >
> > I'm doing
> >
> > $ cd mc-4.6.0
> > $ patch -p4 < ../mc-4.6.0-2003-06-25-17.diff
> I think the problem is in '-p4'. If you cd into right mc tree,
> there should go '-p1' which means 'strip one directory from left'.
> see 'man patch' for details (e.g. the parameter '-p').

The patch is applied with my commands ('patch' does not report it
can't find some files). So, I think, I'm in the right tree.
But a lot of warnings(?) mentioned in my previous message are printed to
stdout. This is the problem.


...Bye..Dmitry.