Re: [patching]Mobprogs patch error??

From: Mud Administration (mudadmin@unix.aardvarkol.com)
Date: 01/29/97


I'm not Flaming this message...  Just Informing...  But Why dont you check
out the file it made with the ".rej" as the ending and piece the
information into your code by hand???  Thats what some of us had to do to
get it to work!

Thanks....

 Mud Administrator at "Lost Order of the DAMNED!"
     (telnet://206.151.13.163 6000)

On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Wyatt Bode wrote:

> G'day all,
>     I am also having some problems installing the mobprog-3.0bpl11
> patch.  I get the same error as some other people have complained about
> on this list, yet I have seen no fixes or other info posted.  I have
> used the two different patching methods described in the various posts
> (patch < mobprog-3.0bpl11.patch   AND   patch -p0 <
> mobprog-3.0bpl11.patch) to no avail.  I think the patch may be
> corrupted, judging by the error I get.  For your information, I
> downloaded both the patch and the full stock bpl11 code from the
> ftp.circlemud.org site.  
> 
> Here's my error message:
> 
> shine% patch -p0 < mobprog-3.0bpl11.patch
> Hmm...  Looks like a new-style context diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -acN ../oldsrc/Makefile ./Makefile
> |*** ../oldsrc/Makefile Fri May 24 20:23:02 1996
> |--- ./Makefile Fri May 24 20:01:32 1996
> --------------------------
> Patching file ./Makefile using Plan A...
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 20.
> Replacement text or line numbers mangled in hunk at line 24
> 
> Has anyone gotten this patch to work correctly?  If so, can they please
> post their copy of the patch to the ftp site, or mail it directly to
> me?  (Please don't send it to the list!!!)
> Thanks for any help available...
> 		-- Wyatt Bode
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