Re: howto add patches?

[Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>]

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 01:33  AM, GCS wrote:
>  I would like to ask how can I add a patch to an existing package? I
> have created debian/patches, placed my patch there. Adding a 'patch 
> -p1 <
> ..' seems to be ok for the first time. But second time, it fails, as 
> the
> source is already patched.

You might try using the -N option to patch, which tells it to ignore 
the patch if already applied.  Alternately, you could reverse the patch 
in the clean target, which seems to be what dbs does.

-neil

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