Comment 38 for bug 1574278

G'day Brian. The patch command automatically applies a patch to a set of files. The particular patch has a sacrificial path element so the --strip 1 option should be used. The --dry-run option is also useful for testing. So it would be "patch --strip 1 --dry-run < file.patch", where file.patch is what was downloaded from the upstream bug report. If that works, repeat again without the --dry-run.