[Samba] Bad patch for 3.2.7 - 3.2.8?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 02:06:55 GMT 2009


On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:50 PM, ljb <ljb1813 at pobox.com> wrote:
> Tried to upgrade from Samba-3.2.7 to 3.2.8 using the released patch:
>  http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/patches/patch-3.2.7-3.2.8.diffs.gz
> But the patch would not apply. After getting the full 3.2.8 source
> release, it looks to me like this patch is not based on 3.2.7 but
> perhaps something newer, except some other files are missing from whatever
> it is based on.
>
>
> patching file docs/htmldocs/manpages/eventlogadm.8.html
> patching file docs/htmldocs/manpages/mount.cifs.8.html
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 23.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 218.
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 234.
> Hunk #5 FAILED at 245.
> Hunk #6 FAILED at 253.
> 5 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> docs/htmldocs/manpages/mount.cifs.8.html.rej
> The next patch would create the file docs/htmldocs/using_samba/appa.html,
> which already exists!  Assume -R? [n]
> ...

If that is the only error I would not worry at all about that. I mean
the mount.cifs.8.html file will not make a difference in the operation
of samba.

-- 
John M. Drescher


More information about the samba mailing list