[rock-user] Re: Build host requirements?

Dear Rene,

as I said in my last mail I sent in a patch for the Check-System script. As
it seems something went wrong with it, but somehow the patch is already
applied in rev3154.

Maybe you can provide a hint or two to help me understand what has happened.

(1) I followed the instructions on http://www.rocklinux.org/submaster.html,
including creation of the file server.txt and adding my registration data
for SubMaster.
(2) I edited the Check-System script file in the trunk.
(3) sm commit; sm queue
(4) sm patch <queue ID> asked me to add a description, as expected, which I
did. After finishing, I saw messages like "dumping diff", also quite as
expected. A patch id was created that I used for the next step.
(5) sm send <patch_id> appeared to work flawlessly. I received an email
message from SubMaster that my patch was there and I could see it in the Web
 UI. But only when netrunner (thanks!) added a note "this patch misses the
patch" I re-checked and found that my description of the patch was there,
but not the patch itself.
(6) I discarded the patch.
(7) Using the web UI I tried to upload it again, but was unable to add a
description, then. So I discarded this, too.
(8) After an sm sync I saw that there's now an updated version of
Check-System, containing just my patch, with two clarifying words in the
output text added. Thanks to whoever did this!

It seems, something went wrong in step 4 or 5 of the process. As I don't
want to set up anybody or make a mess, I'd like to learn how I can avoid
mistakes here. How can I make sure that the upstream data contain the
description *and* the patch, other than trying and then check in the web UI?

Step (8) shows that my patch is unnecessary, now. So it probably don't hurt
that I discarded it, does it?

I'd really like to understand the process better, but my first attempt to
use it was unlucky. Probably I missed something obvious. Can you give me a
hint on where I should look for what in the steps described above, please?

Thank you

   Alex

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