[Samba] Re: Bad patch for 3.2.7 - 3.2.8?

[ljb]

drescherjm at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
>>...
>
> 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.

Not the only errors, just the first few.  I let it run further and
got more, including this:

patching file source/configure
Hunk #1 succeeded at 41383 (offset -2861 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 44254 with fuzz 2.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 44451.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 44513.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 44550.
Hunk #6 succeeded at 41946 with fuzz 1 (offset -2864 lines).
Hunk #7 succeeded at 44888 with fuzz 1 (offset -1 lines).
Hunk #8 succeeded at 42103 with fuzz 1 (offset -2865 lines).
3 out of 8 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file source/configure.rej

So if "configure" won't patch properly, I'm either doing something wrong or
the patch doesn't start with 3.2.7.

Here's another weird thing. From the patch:
  diff -u -r --new-file --exclude .svn --exclude CVS samba-3.2.7/WHATSNEW.txt
    samba-3.2.8/WHATSNEW.txt
  --- samba-3.2.7/WHATSNEW.txt    2009-01-28 11:35:11.000000000 +0100
  +++ samba-3.2.8/WHATSNEW.txt    2009-02-03 17:10:07.000000000 +0100

Samba-3.2.7 was announced on 2009-01-05, so what is WHATSNEW.txt
from 3.2.7 doing with a 2009-01-28 date?