Re: Errors when patching bash4.0

[Bob Proulx]

Alex Reed wrote:
> At least one "hunk" fails on every patch file.  What am I doing wrong?

Hmm...  Works for me.  Here is a trace of the important bits.

  $ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.0.tar.gz
  $ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.0.tar.gz.sig

  $ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.0-patches/bash40-001
  $ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.0-patches/bash40-001.sig

  $ gpg bash-4.0.tar.gz.sig
  gpg: Signature made Mon 09 Mar 2009 08:32:40 AM MDT using DSA key ID 64EA74AB
  gpg: Good signature from "Chet Ramey <chet@cwru.edu>"
  gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
  gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
  Primary key fingerprint: 7C01 35FB 088A AF6C 66C6  50B9 BB58 69F0 64EA 74AB

  $ gpg bash40-001.sig
  gpg: Signature made Mon 09 Mar 2009 08:32:40 AM MDT using DSA key ID 64EA74AB
  gpg: Good signature from "Chet Ramey <chet@cwru.edu>"
  gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
  gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
  Primary key fingerprint: 7C01 35FB 088A AF6C 66C6  50B9 BB58 69F0 64EA 74AB

The key point there with a good signature we know that the patches are
not corrupted.  The signature step would detect this.  The key is the
same key used on all of the patches.  The patches match those posted
to the mailing list.  Those patches probably came from Chet.  :-)

  $ tar xzf bash-4.0.tar.gz
  $ cd bash-4.0
  $ patch -p0 < ../bash40-001
  patching file parse.y
  patching file patchlevel.h

  $ patch --version
  patch 2.5.9

Works for me.

  $ sha1sum bash40-001 bash-4.0.tar.gz
  dc47d547bec938afcd7b382816fec84077f3412f  bash40-001
  2bbed30879f9f424c091a846a48111c27d0b2370  bash-4.0.tar.gz

I would check that your downloaded patch files are not corrupted for
some reason.  I would check that line endings are respected and for
similar things that might confuse things.  I am not familiar with
using lynx as a downloader although I am sure it is fine for the
task.  But at a guess I would think that would be the place to start
to look for problems.

Bob