Patching the Superpatch

[texster]

I have been trying to apply the diff files to go from "67all" 1.2 to 1.3, and then 1.3 to 1.4. Unfortunately I have been getting nothing but hunk failures.
I have ftp'd (binary) the files to var, tried dos2unix and chmod.
Does it matter if the files are xxx.patch or xxx.txt?
I suspect my syntax is wrong, and would appreciate a little guidance, thanks.

[Gunnyman]

there's a whole thread on DDB. The author hangs out there, not here. Good luck.

[texster]

Didn't mean to introduce an inappropriate thread. I thought that the question was so rudimentary, that the other place would frown on it. But I thought is was general in enough in nature that it would be acceptable here. Let me try to ask it this way: how do you apply a diff file to the original using the patch command, and how would one troubleshoot "hunk failed" errors?

[mike32940]

Simplest way is to use notepad. Find the matching sections and then remove lines starting with a '-' and add lines starting with a '+' (without the '+' of course). Run dos2unix to fix the file for unix.

[texster]

Thanks Mike, that's what I ended up doing. Actually I used wordpad, which seems to handle the linux stuff better than notepad.