Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144431
Many incorrect patch files in the source RPM ?
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:15:01 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54 [en] Description of problem: I noticed by manually running the patches in the package, that they produced 171 FAILED messages along with a lot of succesfull patches. I also noticed, that at least one failed patch file definitely did not have the linux-2.6.9 file as its source. After studying more how to compile the source I succesfully ran the steps, but I am wondering if the failing patches were just ignored and if I now have an unstable kernel in an undefined state not equal to 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 with my tiny change of one variable. BTW as mentioned in another report: a HOWTO compile document is highly needed with the source. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): src RPM for 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run patches of the src RPM manually 2. 3. Actual Results: many FAILED messages Expected Results: all success Additional info:
I don't know what you did, but you're doing something wrong. I've done hundreds of local builds without error, and the build system wouldn't spit out binary rpm's if something went wrong in the patching process.
He probably was trying to patch manually, and it failed because one patch relies upon another.