I am totally lost here

[Matthew Carpenter]

I'm really sorry it I missed anything, mate.  I just got this email (long story).
How has the reading come?  the toughest things for me to figure out were patches, and setup scripts.
One way of using %setup creates the source directory right in "/usr/src/OpenLinux/BUILD" and another creates an initial directory in BUILD and then untargz's the source INTO that one, creating an additional layer...

%patch-s are simple now that I figured out how to use "diff" and "patch" pretty well.  That %patch -p1 just means that patch strips off one layer of path from the front of the paths (which are indicated within the patch file).  You create patches simply by using diff...  I have come to like "-u3 -r" as options for diff, which give context and information on the file-locations in question.
diff -u3 -r <initial-file> <file-with-changes-made>  >> thispatch.patch

this should be done from the /usr/src/OpenLinux/BUILD directory with the source extracted in BUILD as well (or however you're going to lay it out).  If %setup puts the files one layer deeper, just de/increment the %patch -p# until it works :)


begin  Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au>
(Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:54:51 +1000)

> I can see from what I have learnt in the past few days re rpms that there are 
> many ways to skin a cat. I can also see that I am going to have to do a bit 
> more reading, it seems its not as complicated as it was; still not easy but!!
> I will be bothering you BTW but have you tried the -ta option on a tarball 
> also the new kernel build using 'make xconfig rpm'..............


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