Forum OpenACS Q&A: How do you apply a patch?

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1: How do you apply a patch?
Posted by James Tinkess on 07/02/01 07:46 AM
Do you simply cut the text from the patch page ( adjusting for
pathing differences) and feed it to the shell?
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2: patch micro-howto (response to 1)
Posted by Andrei Popov on 07/02/01 10:31 AM

short: 

$ man patch

long (and possibly more useful :) : 

$ cd /openacs/top/level/dir
$ patch <patch.file

  • /openacs/top/level/dir is where your OpenACS is installed, something like /web if you follow installation howto
  • patch.file is the patch file you obtained somewhere

    As noted on SDM page, all patches are supposed to be generated from the top level directory of OpenACS.