question about custom spec file and patches

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:07:42 +0100, David wrote:

> Hello guys,
> 
> Let's just say i want to build my own package fontconfig based on original
> Fedora SRPM and add some custom patches.
> 
> After installing SRPM , i will have in SOURCES/ fontconfig-2.6.0.tar.gz ,
> which is original .
> 
> Now i will apply first patch :
> 
> Patch1: patches.diff , and in %prep section i will execute : %patch1 -p1 .
> 
> Done, now i have patched source of fontconfig-2.6.0 in
> BUILD/fontconfig-2.6.0/ directory.
> 
> This is easy and now it comes . Patch1 created additional directory
> BUILD/fontconfig-2.6.0/add_patches/ . In this directory there are 3 more
> patches ,patchX.diff, patchY.diff, patchZ.diff .
> 
> I need to use them in %prep section , after i will execute Patch1.
> 
> Please tell me how ?

Run "patch < add_patches/foo.patch" in the rest of the %prep
setion for each patch you want to apply.

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