On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:50:11AM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: > I have a package that needs four pactches. I put the four patches into > debian/patches and cdbs patches just fine. I want not use cdbs if possible > for I am confused at how exactly it is working, It is a very good idea not to use tools you don't understand. :-) > but what debhelper command do you use to patch? I see none listed under > "man debhelper", no dh_patch or anything. There is no patch command in debhelper. If you want this automated, you need to use a patch helper (such as dpatch or cdbs). > I tried using dpatch but it complained it couldn't understand the .patch > files syntax even when I changed them to have .dpatch endings. dpatch has a special format for the patches. I think they're really executables (but I'm not really familiar with dpatch). What you can do is run "dpatch-edit-patch patch first-patchname", then manually apply the first patch to the tree, then exit the shell. It will save the patch in the format it needs. Do this for the other patches as well and you're done. I think you need to mention their names in debian/patches/00list as well if you actually want it to be applied when building. Read the dpatch documentation for details on that. > I'm sure I'm not doing it correctly. How do you correctly apply .patch > files without cdbs? Do you just have to hardcode all the "patch" commands > into debian/rules? That is an other option. Also, you can simply put them all in the .diff.gz, but then you lose the separation between them. HTH, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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