On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Sean Lyndersay wrote:
> When running regression tests on my system (DEC Alpha running OSF1 v4.0
> Release 564), several tests fail. Some key ones include the int2 and int4,
> but these are caused by changes in the error messages for certain tests.
This can't be helped. The error messages differ on different machines.
The tests that "fail" on your machine pass on mine and many others. I
would suggest you don't submit patches to change these.
> I changed the expected files, but came up against another problem: simply
> put, what is the preferred method for submitting a patch?
Here is how I do it. (I got this from Thomas Lockhart.):
1) Create directory /usr/src/pgsql/patches, e.g.
mkdir /usr/src/pgsql/patches
2) Make a backup of the files you will change, e.g.
cd /usr/src/pgsql/src/man
cp psql.1 psql.1.orig
3) Edit the files, e.g.
vi psql.1
4) Make the patch by using diff from the patch directory, e.g.
cd /usr/src/pgsql/patches
diff -c ../src/man/psql.1.orig ../src/man/psql.1 > psql.1.patch
5) E-mail this patch to pgsql-patches@postgresql.org. Describe the
purpose of the patch at the top of the message. Then include
the text in the patch file (e.g. psql.1.patch).
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