patch listed as missing

jd1008 jd1008 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 22:59:35 UTC 2016



On 02/20/2016 03:54 PM, thibaut noah wrote:
>
> 2016-02-20 23:27 GMT+01:00 jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jd1008 at gmail.com>>:
>
>     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.



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