On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:52:14 am Steve wrote: > I downloaded a src rpm, built it using rpmbuild and the spec file and ran > it. So far, so good. Now I want to modify the source to add some debugging > statements. The problem is that the src rpm contains a number of patches > and one of the patches is to the file I want to modify. Now when I > rpmbuild, the patching fails because the source file it is trying to patch > doesn't look the same. > > What is the Fedora way of dealing with this situation? > > Let me know if this needs to be moved to the devel list. do a rpmbuild -bp <specfile> then you can can go into the prepared source and make you patch toapply in the spec. I almost have a new fedora-packager update ready which will allow anonmous checkouts of fedora packages from cvs you can grab the script from https://fedorahosted.org/fedora- packager/browser/src/fedora-cvs.py it requires you have PyOpenSSL and cvs installed Dennis -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
