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Re: Multicast routing protocols
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dwight Hubbard)
Mon Sep 9 12:02:19 1996
From: "Dwight Hubbard" <dwight.hubbard@mci.com>
To: "babydr" <babydr@nwrain.net>, <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>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 08:36:55 -0500
It's not just your site. I was not able to get to either their FTP or Web
server. To bad too, I needed a CD-Rom by Tuesday AM. Ended up ordering
from Caldera instead...
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From: 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>
Subject: Re: Multicast routing protocols
Date: Friday, September 06, 1996 10:35 PM
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 ?
>
>
