[Freeipa-users] how do i apply patch?

[Petr Vobornik]

On 01/09/2013 03:27 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> i'm interested on patch
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/changeset/1eab43d29244f6e0b8d6f3146317624715d84af7/
> so i can have user to be able to reset own password
>
> do i manually edit each listed files or is there any specific step(s) needed?
>

These patches (in a form sent to freeipa-devel-list) are generated by 
using 'git format-patch' command and are supposed to be applied using 
'git am' or 'git apply' command. They can be also applied on source 
codes using 'patch' utility.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3418277/how-to-apply-git-diff-patch-without-git-installed

If you work with our git repository the easiest way might be 'git 
cherry-pick'.

 From your question isn't clear whether you want to patch source codes 
of some release (ie. 2.2) and then build a custom build or you want to 
modify already installed server. I suspect the latter.

In both cases you might run into a problem that the patch does not apply 
because it depends on some modifications done by some previous patch.

It seems that you want to add password reset functionality to FreeIPA 
2.2. If that is the case you should also look at 
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/attachment/ticket/2276/freeipa-mkosek-274-password-change-capability-for-form-based-auth.patch 
because this one adds the core functionality which the UI page uses. If 
you manage to incorporate Martin's patch, you should just use 
install/ui/reset_password.html and install/ui/reset_password.js  and the 
modifications in install/ui/ipa.css from the changeset you linked. In 
any case I do not recommend to such modifications. They have high 
potential to break things.

HTH
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Petr Vobornik