You need to do patch on top of source tree container
mycoolpkg-5.3/
/Makefile
/source.c
...
mycoolpkg-5.3.new/
/Makefile
/source.c
...
run diff -ruN -p mycoolpkg-5.3 mycoolpkg-5.3.new
Another way:
mycoolpkg-5.3/
/Makefile
/Makefile.orig
...
gendiff mycoolpkg-5.3 .orig > mycoolpkg-fix.patch
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen
<sparks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've never had to add a patch to a SPEC file before and I can't seem
> to make it work.
>
> The patch is to make a modification to the Makefile. ÂI created the
> patch (diff -u) and put that in my SOURCES directory. ÂI included the
> Patch0: line and then called the patch in %prep using %patch0 (no
> switches). ÂWhen I run rpmbuild I get the following:
>
> [user@system rpmbuild]$ rpmbuild -ba SPECS/gpredict.spec
> Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ILyyD6
> + umask 022
> + cd /home/user/rpmbuild/BUILD
> + LANG=C
> + export LANG
> + unset DISPLAY
> + cd /home/user/rpmbuild/BUILD
> + rm -rf gpredict-1.2
> + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /home/user/rpmbuild/SOURCES/gpredict-1.2.tar.gz
> + /bin/tar -xf -
> + STATUS=0
> + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
> + cd gpredict-1.2
> + /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
> + echo 'Patch #0 (gpredict-1.2-DSO.patch):'
> Patch #0 (gpredict-1.2-DSO.patch):
> + /bin/cat /home/user/rpmbuild/SOURCES/gpredict-1.2-DSO.patch
> + /usr/bin/patch -s -p0 --fuzz=0
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |--- Makefile  2010-11-15 20:07:20.676418835 -0500
> |+++ Makefile  2010-11-15 21:35:53.803407014 -0500
> --------------------------
> File to patch:
>
>
> It appears to not find Makefile. ÂMost likely I'm just failing to do
> something correctly here. ÂCan someone point me in the proper
> direction?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
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Andy Shevchenko
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