PATCH HOWTO v1.1			                  03 Jun 1999



INDEX

I	ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
II	TERMS USED
III	APPLYING A PATCH
IV	DOWNLOADING A PATCH






I. ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT

The purpose of this document is to show you what a patch is and how you
can apply a patch.




II. TERMS USED

The following are some common terms used in this document.
If applicable, there is also the associated command named.


 patch
  A patch is an update for a sourcecode of a program (here eggdrop). Be
  carefull, every patch is designed for a speciall eggdrop version and
  cannot be applied on every bot!





III	APPLYING A PATCH

To apply a patch to an eggdrop you have to get first the sourcecode of
it (you should always keep a tar.gz archieve with the source of your
current eggdrop on your shell). In the next step you have to change to
your current source directory (i.e.: /home/user/eggdrop1.3.27/) and type
the following command:

patch -p1 < ../path.to.the/patch

Once this is complete, execute the following command:

find . -name "*.rej" -print

If it returns a list with filenames ending with .rej extension then the
patch didn't apply properly. Ensure that the patch is intended for your
version and that you have the original source. You should also try to
re-download the patch to ensure, that the patch is not corrupted.

If the patch applied properly the only thing left to do is to recompile
your eggdrop and install the new modules and binaries.




IV	DOWNLOADING A PATCH

All patches for eggdrop1.4.x can be found on ftp.eggheads.org in /pub/eggdrop/patches1.4.



Hope that this document helped you in some way...

Johoho@IRCNET
comments: wodecki@gmx.de