Re: How do I apply a patch Debian style?

[William Brown <wbrown@accesscomm.ca>]

The process is the same as always; use the patch utility.  It will be a 
standard util on Debian.

cd to your source directory: i.e. % cd 
/usr/local/src/gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-4

cp the diff file to the same directory; i.e.
     % cp  /location/to/diff/file/gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-4.diff.gz .

gunzip the diff: i.e.
    % gunzip gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-4.diff.gz

apply the diff:  i.e.
    % patch -p1 < gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-4.diff

Done.
There are different levels of patching (-p1,-p2 ..) but -p1 is what you 
will want almost all the time.

Bill



Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to compile stock gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-2 with a patch
> gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-4.diff.gz applied.
>
> How do I do that? What do I need, more than a compiling
> gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-2 and the
> gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-4.diff.gz?
>
> Is there a Debian way of doing things, so that I end up with a
> gnome-system-monitor-2.8.1-4_amd64.deb package that I can install?
>
>