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Message-ID: <20070407190535.GA5169@openwall.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 23:05:35 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Need help appying a patch to john 1.7.2
Please try to quote relevant context only.
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:46:08PM -0400, Gavin Westermann wrote:
> e220r% pwd
> /home/gavin/tools/john-1.7.2
>
> *** now from inside the main john-1.7.2 directory I'll run Alains
> suggestion on the unzipped diff file
>
> e220r% patch -p1 < john-1.7.2-mscash-alainesp-4.1.diff
> Looks like a unified context diff.
> File to patch:
> 220r% ** it stops there asking for the file to patch unlike yours which
> seems to know what and where to find.
...
You've never mentioned what OS you're doing this on (try "uname -a").
Maybe your "patch" command is simply non-working or more limited. You
might want to try with GNU patch, or on a system that provides GNU patch
out of the box.
> Now I don't understand the impact of the different "p" modifiers,
This should be explained in "man patch".
> 1 in Alain's case and 0 in others?
I don't know where you found an example with "-p0", but it is wrong for
this patch file when applied from under "john-1.7.2".
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