Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!hubcap!rwberry
From: rwberry@hubcap.UUCP (Robert W Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: 1.2-1.3.tar upgrade HELP!!!
Keywords: tar diff patch cdiff
Message-ID: <3930@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 08:28:21 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Close.  I'm sooooooo close.  I've taken Minix off my harddisk and got a
plain-vanilla version of 1.2 put back on and running.  I've gotten the
1.2-1.3 tar-file from bugs.nosc.mil onto the Minix partition of my
harddrive.  I've successfully un-tar'ed the file and I now think I've
got everything where it belongs.  (All the ln's from /usr/include/... to
/usr/src/minix/h, etc.)

Now here's my problem:  what the heck do you do with that 300k
patch.diff file.  Do you need patch or fix (I thought patch was for
cdiff's and fix was for diff's.)  I've set up my directory structure
according to both the rearrange file and the users_guide file.  Do I
have to move things around so that patch (or fix) knows where the source
files are?  Has anybody successfully gotten this update to work?  Is the
patch.diff file only diff's to the command sources or library sources?
And once I figure out which command to use, how do you work the darn
things?  The closest I can figure is that they are inverses of each
other so:
     diff old new >difffile and then fix old difffile >new should create
     new from old, etc.
Am I on the right track (hopefully I'm at least close. ;-))

It's taken me almost two days to find and restore all of the 1.2
distribution.  I really, REALLY want to get a 1.3 up and running before
the new year.  HELP?  If you have any advice, warnings, etc about
applying these diff's please send it/them to me?  I've been working with
Minix for quite a while, and I've applied diffs before, but always by
hand.  I never quite trusted fix or patch, and my source files had
really been worked over.  So this is my first attempt at using these
utilities.

Another real quick question:  the user's guide suggests the use of
diskcheck and badblocks before you install Minix of a harddrive.  Are
these 1.3c commands.  If so can they be used without having to yank
everything back off the fixed disk?

Thanks in advance,
Bob

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