Questions

[Thomas Dineen]

Gentle People:

When building source RPMs:
How are the patch files installed? By hand? Or automatically by the make 
build?
If manually what command is used and in what directory? Example?

Thanks For The Help
Thomas Dineen

[Todd Zullinger]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Dineen wrote:
> When building source RPMs:
> How are the patch files installed? By hand? Or automatically by the make
> build?
> If manually what command is used and in what directory? Example?

If you peak at a particular package, let's use the git package as an
example. I just added a patch there recently and built it.

You can see the changes I made to the spec file to include a new patch
here:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=git.git;a=commitdiff;h=69974bd1

Basically, I added a Patch4: line, with the filename of the patch, and
used the %patch4 macro to apply it in the rpmbuild %prep section.  The
patch file is placed in the rpm %_sourcedir (typically this is
~/rpmbuild/SOURCES, but you can change this).

You can see the build log and the commands this ends up executing via
koji:

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/git/1.7.6/5.fc16/data/logs/i686/b...

The relevant lines are:

Patch #4 (0001-propagate-quiet-to-send-pack-receive-pack.patch):
+ echo 'Patch #4 (0001-propagate-quiet-to-send-pack-receive-pack.patch):'
+ /bin/cat /builddir/build/SOURCES/0001-propagate-quiet-to-send-pack-receive-pack.patch
+ /usr/bin/patch -s -p1 --fuzz=0

Does this help?