On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 04:46:36 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo (g.parrondo@gmail.com) wrote: > Come on, the debian people made patching software a children game. These > are the simple steps you should follow: > As root: > aptitude install build-essential fakeroot > apt-get build-dep aptitude > > As normal user: > apt-get source aptitude > cd aptitude-(version) > patch -p1 < thepatchhesent.patch > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > cd .. > > As root: > dpkg -i *.deb > > > There, the patched aptitude is already installed and all you have to do > is try to reproduce the bug. Luckily, you won't be able to. Gabriel - thank you very much for your extremely useful reply. It all worked perfectly and having now successfully applied the patch, I can confirm that I cannot reproduce the bug. > If you want to know more about each command, the man pages are a good > starting point. Yes indeed, man pages are wonderful things. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/
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