[arch] patching with makepkg

[Andreas Radke]

Am Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:12:18 +0100
schrieb Johannes Held <mail at hehejo.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> what is need to be done, that a patch is applied using makepkg?
> 
> I looked into the PKGBUILD of rhythmbox - there's no special command
> for applying patches.
> 
> I put the patch named as "crossfade.patch"
> into /var/abs/local/rhythmbox and ran makepkg.
> Is the patch now applied?
> 
> 
use the usual patch command in the build section of the pkgbuild, eg:

patch -Np1 -i ../foo.patch || return 1