Hi Thanks for the reply. Nope the the patch file isn't rejected. The rpm builds fine without any complaints. So I'm not sure whats happening. Thanks Shahzad On 5/4/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC2smp > Serendipity 17:59:52 up 2 days, 2:05, load average: 0.11, 0.14, 0.10 > > >