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Need for advice: How manage DWM Patches?

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – vheon wrote:So you first patch the code with one patch and then apply the second one by hand and recreate the patch just for that caseSuch is the nature of patching dwm.I recently moved to using mercurial queues and guards - this, combined with keeping the number of patches down*, is the most effective approach I have found.For creating a new feature patch, diff against stable and send to the suckless ML.* Once I gave up on pertag, I never looked back. jasonwryan https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=25579 2012-09-07T01:32:37Z (HowTos)

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The patch file and the source files that the patch modifies should be in same directory. For dwm, I have found that installing via AUR is more trouble than it's worth. I have the source files of dwm in $HOME and just run make clean install inside this directory whenever I modify my config.h

iTwenty https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=43530

2011-12-06T15:05:54Z

Dwm 5.9 Compilation issues 1 year 36 weeks ago

The diff you use rename tile() to ntile(), you should not have tile in your config.h. The rest of errors probably relate to what the diff has nerfed.I think you should stay on 5.8.2 until all the patches have support for 5.9 if you can't patch on patch on your own.

livibetter https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=16513

2011-09-12T14:49:19Z

Because of the way the PKGBUILD is written.cat "$srcdir/"*.patch | patch -Np1Old patches in $srcdir will be applied if you haven't cleaned them out.

falconindy https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=30251

2012-07-01T01:17:19Z

tomd123 wrote:I figured out a way to avoid the segfault, you will have to rebuild vim from abs and apply the following patch to the PKGBUILD:https://gist.github.com/2423572I'm guessing this has something to do with arch's and vim's buildflags somehow not playing well together.This works with patch 496 and fixes python 3 support for me.  Thanks a lot.

saline https://bbs

How do you Apply DWM Patches? 37 weeks 5 days ago

Mediator - please don't spoonfeed posters. As has been pointed out, this topic is extensively documented and, as a quick search will show, has been answered on these boards many times before...SuperhackerDaru - I'm closing this.

diff/patch a directory? 3 years 32 weeks ago

I can create a patch for a file with the following:

Code: diff -uN OldFile NewFile > patch.txt then apply the patch with:

Code: patch OldFile < patch.txt I tried this with directories:

Code: diff -uN OldDirectory NewDirectory > patch.txt it seemed to work fine. Then I tried to apply the patch:

Save the above to a file where your PKGBUILD file is. We'll call it uzbl.patch. Then cd to that directory and run "patch -p1 < uzbl.patch"Don't see why that wouldn't work (to patch the file I mean).

dodo3773 https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=47076

2012-09-11T05:36:55Z

Yes: I think the suckless crew regard EWMH as some sort of abomination

jasonwryan https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=25579

2012-08-23T09:29:53Z

hooya wrote:I don't even know where to start to fix this.https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_ConfigurationThere are also a number of threads post the recent upgrade with some very good information in them...

jasonwryan https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=25579

2012-09-08T02:52:13Z