I am trying to apply a set of patches to the available package sources,
to give me the latest package source code.

I have a set of source files as follows:

netkit-telnet-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-telnet_0.17-28.diff.gz
netkit-telnet_0.17-32.diff.gz
netkit-telnet_0.17-35.diff.gz

I first gunzip the files:

gunzip *.gz

This gives me:

netkit-telnet-0.17.tar
netkit-telnet_0.17-28.diff
netkit-telnet_0.17-32.diff
netkit-telnet_0.17-35.diff


I now extract the source tarball:

tar xf netkit-telnet-0.17.tar

This creates a subdirectory netkit-telnet-0.17 containing the source
code for the original package.

I now want to apply the .diff files:

patch netkit-telnet_0.17-28.diff netkit-telnet-0.17
patch: **** read error : Is a directory

I obviously typed the parameters here. What file should I be patching
against?

I tried patching the tar file and the raw .gz file, but both give me
errors:

patch netkit-telnet-0.17.tar.gz netkit-telnet_0.17-28.diff
patching file netkit-telnet-0.17.tar.gz
Hunk #1 FAILED at 7.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
netkit-telnet-0.17.tar.gz.rej
can't find file to patch at input line 14
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- netkit-telnet-0.17.orig/telnet/defines.h
|+++ netkit-telnet-0.17/telnet/defines.h
--------------------------
File to patch: ^Z

patch netkit-telnet-0.17.tar netkit-telnet_0.17-28.diff
patching file netkit-telnet-0.17.tar
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1065 (offset 1058 lines).
can't find file to patch at input line 14
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- netkit-telnet-0.17.orig/telnet/defines.h
|+++ netkit-telnet-0.17/telnet/defines.h
--------------------------
File to patch: ^Z

What should I be doing to patch the source code?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Mark.

--
Mark Hobley,
393 Quinton Road West,
Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
B32 1QE.

On Feb 18, 10:08 am, markhob...@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com (Mark
Hobley) wrote:
> I am trying to apply a set of patches to the available package sources,
> to give me the latest package source code.
>
> I have a set of source files as follows:
>
> netkit-telnet-0.17.tar.gz
> netkit-telnet_0.17-28.diff.gz
> netkit-telnet_0.17-32.diff.gz
> netkit-telnet_0.17-35.diff.gz
>
> I first gunzip the files:
>
> gunzip *.gz
>
> This gives me:
>
> netkit-telnet-0.17.tar
> netkit-telnet_0.17-28.diff
> netkit-telnet_0.17-32.diff
> netkit-telnet_0.17-35.diff
>
> I now extract the source tarball:
>
> tar xf netkit-telnet-0.17.tar
>
> This creates a subdirectory netkit-telnet-0.17 containing the source
> code for the original package.
>
> I now want to apply the .diff files:
>
> patch netkit-telnet_0.17-28.diff netkit-telnet-0.17
> patch: **** read error : Is a directory
>
> I obviously typed the parameters here. What file should I be patching
> against?
>
> I tried patching the tar file and the raw .gz file, but both give me
> errors:
>
> patch netkit-telnet-0.17.tar.gz netkit-telnet_0.17-28.diff
> patching file netkit-telnet-0.17.tar.gz
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 7.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> netkit-telnet-0.17.tar.gz.rej
> can't find file to patch at input line 14
> Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |--- netkit-telnet-0.17.orig/telnet/defines.h
> |+++ netkit-telnet-0.17/telnet/defines.h
> --------------------------
> File to patch: ^Z
>
> patch netkit-telnet-0.17.tar netkit-telnet_0.17-28.diff
> patching file netkit-telnet-0.17.tar
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 1065 (offset 1058 lines).
> can't find file to patch at input line 14
> Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |--- netkit-telnet-0.17.orig/telnet/defines.h
> |+++ netkit-telnet-0.17/telnet/defines.h
> --------------------------
> File to patch: ^Z
>
> What should I be doing to patch the source code?
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
>
> Mark.
>
> --
> Mark Hobley,
> 393 Quinton Road West,
> Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
> B32 1QE.

I'm not sure what you are trying to do hence give some general
pointers.
To patch something in a directory X with a patch file in /Y.patch I
will normally do:
1. Change dir to the directory X (eg: cd .../X)
2. Patch using the file
eg:
patch -p1 < /Y.patch