RPM build

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 04.05.2005 schrieb Shahzad Chohan um 17:36:

> I'm trying to ammend a config file for samhain. Here's my patch file
> which I generated by untarring two samhain packages then altering the
> samhainrc.linux config file in one then ran  diff -uNr samahain
> samhain-mine > samhain.patch
> 
> I then put these lines in the samhain rpm spec file:
> 
> Patch0: samhain-2.0.5b.patch
> and ...:
> %prep
> %setup -q -n samhain-%{version}
> %patch -p1
> 
> My patch file looks like this:
> 
> diff -uNr samhain-2.0.5b/samhainrc.linux samhain-2.0.5b-my/samhainrc.linux
> --- samhain-2.0.5b/samhainrc.linux      2004-10-11 08:14:30.000000000 +0100
> +++ samhain-2.0.5b-my/samhainrc.linux   2005-05-04 13:03:55.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1,669 +1,104 @@
> -#####################################################################
> -#
> -# Configuration file template for samhain.
> -#
> -#####################################################################
> -#
> -# -- empty lines and lines starting with '#', ';' or '//' are ignored
> 
> etc......

> Shahzad

And what happens when running rpmbuild? The patch is rejected I guess.
You will have to be specific and show us the part of the rpmbuild log
where the error occurs. Too have a look at the .rej file created when
the patch fails. Or does patching fail because the file to be patched
can not be found?

Alexander


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