[4319] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Multicast routing protocols
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (babydr)
Sat Sep 7 21:11:51 1996
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 20:35:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: babydr <babydr@nwrain.net>
Reply-To: babydr <babydr@nwrain.net>
To: Nigel.Metheringham@theplanet.net, system admin <root@oscar.centraltx.net>
Cc: Gated-people discussion list <gated-people@merit.edu>,
"Linux Network Info. List" <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199609060232.VAA11193@oscar.centraltx.net>
Did that, been there. OK, whats next ?
PS: tried to ftp to redhat's site & got host unknown
is their dns servers down ? @ 06-Sep-1996 20:19 PDT
Was attempting to get a fresh copy of 'gated.patch'
just in case something was amiss with my local copy.
It is probably something intrinsicly wrong with something
else on my system, I just need some sort of pointer as to
where to start looking ...
There's more comments below...
JimL
System Admin wrote...
>
> sounds like you need to do:
>
> patch -p < patchfile
This gives me the same thing as if I was in the directory
without the '-p' option.
>
And Nigel Metheringham wrote...
>I think you probably need to read the patch man page.
>
>Most likely you should cd into the gated directory and then use the
>-p1 switch to patch, ie
>
> patch -p1 <patchfile
This give me that all patches fail, except the first two
which are Linux.README & the ?????.config files.
>
> Nigel.
>
And I wrote In a previous re-incarnation....
> > Can't say as I have a bug report, But maybe a question.
> >
> > Background:
> >
> > I have the gated-3_6Alpha2 sources & am running an Slackware
> > 3.0.0(1.2.1?) system hand upgraded to 2.0.17 & the patches from
> > ftp.redhat.com:/gated/.
> >
> > When I un-tar the gated srcs it creates a dir gated-3_6Alpha2
> > when I apply the patch to the src's From inside the gated* dir
> > patch starts yelling at me to provide the names of each of the
> > files to be patched.
> >
> > If I create a NEW un-tared gated directory & apply the patches
> > from the dir that has gated-3_6Alpha2 in it, I get the
> > Linux-readme & the *.config in this dir & not the gated dir.
> >
> > Neither seems to matter as the 'make config' shows some items
> > missing that it seems to want, one being 'kvm.c' which if my
> > research is correct is only available under SunOS/Slowaris .
> >
> > If I ignore those missing items & do a 'make' I get compilation
> > errors .
> >
> > My Real question seems to be ARE the patches from ftp.redhat.com
> > -only- for the redhat distribution ?
>
>
