Re: [fuse-devel] How do I apply a 2.9 patch?

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2011/7/20 Björn Haake <bjo...@it...>:
> I was wondering if there are instructions somewhere on how to apply the patches? I have tried various things but all have been failing. I am probably just missing something very obvious...
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> This is on RHEL 5 - 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5.
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> I have tried two ways:
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> 1.) Copy the files from the snapshot into (a copy of) the current 2.8.5 install (since the snapshots don't contain all the necessary files to compile it)
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> 2.) Use the automake, aclocal, autocoonf tools on the snapshot to generate the necessary makefiles etc.

Neither of these methods are applying patches. If you just want the
2.9.0 sources you should download the entire source tree through
source control. If you are looking for a specific patch that was
applied to the 2.9.0 tree you can download individual patches from the
git repository http://fuse.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi .
Once you have the patch you can try to apply it using the patch
command. However, git changes are not cumulative so you might have to
apply previous patches.

You might be better off looking at the patch and modifying the 2.8.5
source code yourself and back porting the patch.

-nate