I know this isn't strictly related to xymon, but I'm trying to patch xymon and recompile so I can test the patch but I can't seem to get it to work. Does anyone here have any good recommendations on where I can read up on patching and compiling or building and testing?

I'm really only a novice in programming, but I think know enough to be able to contribute. I've created a patch for csvreport.c which I believe should cause the availability report to output times in a human readable format instead of unix epoch time. When I tried following instructions from some random websites I found on working with SRPMS, I added the patch into the spec file in 2 spots but when I tried to rebuild the binary RPM, it asks me which file I want to patch. I put my patch file in the sources directory where the rest of the patches seemed to be and added this to the spec file:

%patch1000 -p0

and.

Patch1000: xymon.xymongen_csvreport.patch

So I decided it might be easier to try editing the file found in my /home/rpmbuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/xymon-4.3.27/xymongen directory and just rebuild from that but when I rebuilt it, I get the same unix epoch time on the generated CSV report. I would assume that at the very least I would get some sort of error message on my first try.

TIA

-Jason