[Freeipa-users] manually apply patches from upstream

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On to, 19 tammi 2017, Jeff Clay wrote:
>I’m using Centos 7 and have installed 4.4.0-14, however I’m using
>Google Cloud and needing some updates that have already been made
>upstream at https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5814
><https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5814>
>
>I have downloaded the diffs from the 3 commits to the 4.4 branch.
>Searching my system for the proper directories, I found that many of
>the files (like replicainstall.py) can be found in a sub dir of of
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ while other parts can be found in
>/usr/sbin/
>
>I’m just wondering what is the best and proper way for me to apply
>those code changes?
A proper way would be by adding these patches to the source package and
rebuilding the rpms. The sources for CentOS builds can be found at
https://git.centos.org/summary/?r=rpms/ipa git repository (c7 branch for
CentOS 7).

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/ Alexander Bokovoy