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Re: Patching SRPM utilities produces rejects on RH9

From: Stephen Smalley <sds_at_epoch.ncsc.mil>
Date: 11 Sep 2003 14:36:43 -0400


On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 14:27, Kratzer, James R. wrote:
> I'm running Red Hat 9 and I am using the SELinux userland archive
> selinux-usr-2003081307.tgz which had been updated for Red Hat 9.
>
> I am applying the patches to the SRPMs. Both the patches and the SRPMs are
> provided with the userland archive downloaded from the SELinux site. When
> applying the patches, I am getting some rejections, where the patch utility
> can't find the code to patch. Most of the hunks succeed but some are
> rejected. The hunks that fail are failing because the code to patch cannot
> be found in the source file. I would like to know if this is normal when
> patching the SRPMs with the SELinux patches. Could it be that the patches
> were correct for an earlier version of Red Hat but have not been updated for
> RH9? After patching, the SRPMs build fine even with the rejections.

The SRPMS include the patches already.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency


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