[Koha] How to apply a patch?

[Owen Leonard]

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> When it look at each of the files in terminal it shows as a "new file"

It sounds like you haven't found the file you need to edit. Your
editor thinks you're creating a new file with that name. You'll first
need to locate the files in question, then edit.

  -- Owen

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Scott Knight <sknight at hissda.org> wrote:
> Ok that makes sense. I just wanted some clarification before manually
> editing system files.
> When it look at each of the files in terminal it shows as a "new file". It
> seems their should be pre-existing data. Are there any steps to prior to
> applying the patch? Or Zebra configurations? Zebra has been doing searches
> within my test environment just fine.
> I'm not sure what you mean by "version control". Its koha 3.02.00.004 and
> Zebra 2.0.44.
> Scott
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:
>>
>> > I found a patch listed here:
>> > http://www.mail-archive.com/koha-patches@lists.koha.org/msg04867.html
>>
>> If your Koha installation isn't under any kind of version control it's
>> probably easiest to make the changes by hand. The patch modifies these
>> three files:
>>
>>  etc/zebradb/biblios/etc/bib1.att
>>  etc/zebradb/ccl.properties
>>  etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/record.abs
>>
>> The patch shows you what changes were made, in context:
>>
>>  att 9902    Author-in-order
>>  # Lexile number
>>  att 9903    lex
>> +att 9904    arl
>>  att 9520    Item
>>
>> The "+" shows you what line was inserted. You can use your editor's
>> search function to find the line you need. Insert the indicated text,
>> minus the "+" symbol.
>>
>>  -- Owen
>>