patching?

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:35 pm, Sam Lawrance 
<boris at brooknet.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:24 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >  make install
> > ===>  Extracting for sguil-server-0.5.3
> > => Checksum OK for sguil-server-0.5.3.tar.gz.
> > ===>  Patching for sguil-server-0.5.3
> > ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for sguil-server-0.5.3
> > Ignoring previously applied (or reversed) patch.
> > 1 out of 1 hunks ignored--saving rejects to
> > server/archive_sguildb.tcl.rej => Patch patch-archive_sguildb.tcl
> > failed to apply cleanly. *** Error code 1
>
> As the error says, are the patches reversed? ie. perhaps you have
> incorrectly run
>
> 	diff -urN file file.orig
>
> instead of the correct
>
> 	diff -urN file.orig file

Sometimes I get this problem if I forget to use the -p flag when 
patching (from the /usr/ports/ directory):

# patch -p0 < /path/to/patchfile

But this also depends on how the patch is written. You might already 
know how to patch, but what the heck. The first time I made a patch I 
did it incorrectly and reversed it when running diff, like Sam's 
example above.

- jt