Patches

[[NubS] Rabbitt]

Ok ive seen and heard about all these patches but i cant figure out how to get them to function/operate/work.
I tryed google and come up with 310,000 things but not one explains anything useful.

Can someone help with with patching and how it works

[David]

download the source, apply the patch, compile it.
There are guides around on here for the downloading and compiling.
The patching is just a standard patch.

[[NubS] Rabbitt]

Ok thanks David ill have to look around on here to see if i can get it to work.

[twilight]

patching is for developers who want to edit and recompile the source code...normal players shouldn't worry about it.

[sleekslacker]

and for server operators who want to tweak their server features.

[[NubS] Rabbitt]

Thats why im asking i wanna make sure im up to date with al the bug fixes and all.

[Death_First]

i cant figure out how to apply the patchs do u just throw them in the svn code?


and on another note: Can u apply 2 or more patchs to the svn code at the same time?

[Lakitu7]

download whatever revision from SVN
download patchfile and put in the root directory of the downloaded svn tree
patch -p0 < patchfile.patch
If it fails saying "can't find file, here's the first 5 lines blah blah", change -p0 to p1. If same, try p2
If one or more "hunks" fails, then you're trying to apply it to a revision that it wasn't made for and something about the code it's looking for has changed and thus the patch isn't compatable.

Applying 2 patches at once is fine, with the caveat that if they are trying to modify a same bit of code, the second will have the "hunks" failing error and it won't work.

.patchfiles are human-readable. If something fails and you are ambitious, you can often go "apply" it manually yourself to the code.

[f0rqu3]

that is what I got from a google search
http://images.google.com/images?q=patches

[Death_First]

that is what I got from a google search
http://images.google.com/images?q=patches

XD!!!!!!!