Steve wrote:
---- "Mikkel L. Ellertson" mikkel@infinity-ltd.com wrote:
One way is to create your own patch that is used after the original patch. Add it to the end of the patch list.
Yukk!! That will get really tiresome really quickly. At this point I don't really know what I'm looking for so I may end up having to add debug statements to several files.
Is there a way to apply all the patches to the source code and them remove them from the spec file?
Steve
Well, if you are debugging the program, you would probably be better off running "rpmbuild -bp <package>" and then make your changes in the build directory. Then run make manually. You can do this all as a normal user. Depending on what you are building, you may be able to run it as a normal user from the build directory. If not, you are probably going to override the make file so it installs relative to your home directory. Once you have it debugged, you can transfere the changes to the virgin source with a patch, or pass them upstream...
Mikkel