Piping patches direct to pgnus

Piping patches direct to pgnus

[Harry Putnam]

I thought I remebered being able to  pipe  patches directly from mail
viewer to the pgnus lisp directory with the 'O p' command then giving
it 'patch' and the address pgnus-0.73/lisp/  or maybe
pgnus-0.73/lisp/*.el or something similar.  Trying this with the patches
on ding-patches I get errors like:
patch: extra operand `/usr/local/pgnus-0.73/lisp/dgnushack.el'
patch: Try `patch --help' for more information.

I may be remembering doing this with patches to single files in */lisp

Can someone explain how this done or if it can be done?

-- 
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Running Redhat Linux 5.2

Re: Piping patches direct to pgnus

[Justin Sheehy]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I thought I remebered being able to  pipe  patches directly from mail
> viewer 

> Trying this with the patches on ding-patches I get errors

Try something like:

`<part number> K |' on the article.  Gnus version updates from Lars
generally have the patch as part 2, so you would press `2 K |'

When prompted, enter:

patch -d <directory above pgnus> -p 0

For instance, I have a directory like ~/lib/el/pgnus/lisp, so I enter:

patch -d ~/lib/el -p 0

and everything works nicely.

The directory that you enter after the -d switch can vary depending on 
your setup and what the diff looks like.  

Of course, you still need to do a `make' in the pgnus directory to
byte-compile after you patch the lisp files.

-- 
Justin Sheehy

In a cloud bones of steel.