New user, port selfupdate error

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 21, 2010, at 20:38, tome at QX.Net wrote:

> Hello,  I wasn't sure whether I was suppose wait for something to be done that was suppose to be done, or install the patch, so I decided to install the 
> batch, and, the following happened after downloading what I thought to be the proper patch:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> % cd `port dir mp4v2`
> % pwd
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/multimedia/mp4v2
> % sudo patch -p0 < ~/mp4v2-1.9.1-libversion.patch 
> Password:
> can't find file to patch at input line 4
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -Nru ../mp4v2-1.9.1-orig/GNUmakefile.in ./GNUmakefile.in
> |--- ../mp4v2-1.9.1-orig/GNUmakefile.in 2009-07-14 02:25:44.000000000 +0300
> |+++ ./GNUmakefile.in   2009-10-10 11:12:15.000000000 +0300
> --------------------------
> File to patch: 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This was my first attempt at installing patches, so I probably did something wrong.
> 
> Further guidance will be greatly appreciated!

The ticket includes instructions on how to use the patch, and also my request for more information, as I'm not able to reproduce the failure here.