Subject: The well known patch problem (was: pkg/7929: a2ps patch fails)
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/06/1999 22:28:20
In article <199907061011.MAA27289@vader.runit.sintef.no>,
Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no writes:
> The patches are apparently out of sync with the sources.
Indeed, but only in your local copy of the package sources. Possible
reasons for this problem are:
- You sup without the "-d" or "delete" option.
- You download "pkgsrc.tar.gz" and did not remove the package source tree
before extracting the new one.
Regards
--
Matthias Scheler http://home.owl.de/~tron/