Re: patch listed as missing

[JD]

On 02/20/2016 03:54 PM, thibaut noah wrote:
> 2016-02-20 23:27 GMT+01:00 jd1008 <[e-mail] 
> >:
> You cannot set the number of the patch in the spec file to match
> some other spec
> file. If you do, then you need to re-number all the other patch
> files in mentioned
> in the spec file. Setting the number for the patch you want, you
> will mess up the
> sequence of patches which are often sequentially dependent.
> Best thing to do is is choose a number for the patch that is not
> currently assigned
> to any other patch in the pristine spec file. So, if you have,
> say... 10 patches in the
> pristine spec file, create an entry for patch 11  in the spec file.
>
> This is no guarantee the patch will succeed.
>
>
> That's no what i did.
> I checked all the patches numbers and i set my patch number at last 
> number + 1 to set a not used number.

OK. You did the right thing.
So it should be obvious to you now that the patch from an older release 
will not
work on a subsequent release.