[ale] Applying patches

[Christopher Fowler]

A patch is basically a diff output file.  diff is used to show the
differences between 2 versions of a file. 


1) ungzip the file
2) cd to source tree of samba
3) patch -p0 < <patch file>
4) Rebuild samba



On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 08:32, hbbs at attbi.com wrote:
> Investigating the new patch to the Samba tree has brought up a glaring
> deficiency:  I don't know how to do patches.  
> 
> I'm referring to patches distributed as difference files with names in the form
> patch-<version_or_whatever>.diffs.gz.  I've looked at such a file's innards and
> it looks like it's meant to be executed as a script, but I don't quite get what
> the "standard procedure" is supposed to be.  Do you drop the diffs file in the
> top of the source tree and execute, or what?
> 
> - Jeff
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