System Patches - auto-apply patch does not work…

[doktornotor]

The auto-apply patch option has no effect whatsoever here with 2.1-RC0 snapshots. Nothing applied after firmware snapshots upgrade and repeated reboots. Always need to reapply the patch manually. Does this actually work for anyone?  ???

[jimp]

NanoBSD or a full install?

[doktornotor]

Nano… usually on (almost) latest snapshot. :)

[jimp]

If you revert a patch, set it to auto-apply, and then reboot, does it work then?

[doktornotor]

Well… no, that did not help. But - I guess I figured it out. It seems like the patch confuses the hell out of the thing, since it can be both applied and "reverted" with both actions being always "clean", just the offset is growing by 1 line... Can you try with this one to see if you can reproduce it?

--- /etc/inc/system.inc	2013-06-23 08:14:58.000000000 +0400
+++ /etc/inc/system.inc	2013-06-23 08:14:58.000000000 +0400
@@ -1501,7 +1501,6 @@
 function enable_watchdog() {
 	global $config;
-	return;
 	$install_watchdog = false;
 	$supported_watchdogs = array("Geode");
 	$file = file_get_contents("/var/log/dmesg.boot");

(being basically a revert of the first hunk of commit 1a479479f397973257592f32c5c7adc8cd088a82).

Cf. this logic:

/* If the patch can be reverted it is already applied, so skip it. */
		if (!patch_test_revert($patch)) {
			/* Only attempt to apply if it can be applied. */
			if (patch_test_apply($patch)) {
				patch_apply($patch);
			}

[jimp]

I never could reproduce this. It always applied at boot for me post-upgrade.

That said, given the problem you hit with another issue, I tried delcaring the variables global before defining them in the patches package include file. Upgrade the package, and then see if it works after the next firmware update.