Hi - I don't have commit access yet, so I'm hoping someone will apply this patch for me. This patch will prevent patchomatic from sucking up old backup files when it's applying patches. diff -u ../patch-o-matic-ng-trunk/Netfilter_POM.pm Netfilter_POM.pm --- ../patch-o-matic-ng-trunk/Netfilter_POM.pm 2006-10-03 08:21:19.000000000 -0700 +++ Netfilter_POM.pm 2006-10-03 08:46:41.000000000 -0700 @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ opendir(DIR, $dir) or croak "can't open directory $dir: $!"; # Don't miss .foo-test files! - my @dents = sort grep {!/^(\.\.?|CVS|\.svn)$/} readdir(DIR); + my @dents = sort grep {!/^(\.\.?|CVS|\.svn|#?.*~)$/} readdir(DIR); closedir(DIR); foreach my $dent (@dents) { my $fullpath = "$dir/$dent"; On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:25, Alan Ezust wrote: > I just ran into this bug in runme script from patchomatic - I was writing a > patch file called linux-2.6.16.29.patch but there was a BACKUP file > called linux-2.6.16.29.patch~ and another one called linux-2.6.patch~ > and it seems to be finding the BACKUP files and using them in favor of the > actual patch files I am developing. Since the output doesn't tell me which > file it is reading, I couldn't tell what was wrong, and wasted quite a lot > of time looking at a file that wasn't even being read by runme.