Create/Apply patch from/to original Geonetwork

The patch file 'geonetwork.patch' included in the tern-geonetwork git repository was created between original geonetwork folder extracted from war file under /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps and the TERN customized geonetwork in Bitbucket repository

Create patch file

1. Clone tern-geonetwork repository to local directory, for example /home/ubuntu

 git clone https://bitbucket.org/ternhq/tern-geonetwork.git tern-geonetwork 

2. cd to /home/ubuntu and run the following command 

diff -Naur /home/ubuntu/geonetwork/ /home/ubuntu/tern-geonetwork/ > geonetwork.patch

Apply patch file to Geonetwork

1. After geonetwork is extracted from war file to /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps, stop tomcat service

service tomcat7 stop

2. cd to the original geonetwork folder and run the following

patch -p4 -t < /PATH/TO/PATCH/FILE

The patch file contains all the file names in absolute path format. So when we execute from the geonetwork folder, without the “-p” option, it will not work properly.

-p4 tells the patch command to skip 4 leading slashes from the file names present in the patch file. In our case, the file name in patch file is “/home/ubuntu/tern-geonetwork/FILENAME”, since we have given “-p4”, 4 leading slashes, i.e. until /home/ubuntu/tern-geonetwork/ is ignored.

Correct Ownership of the geonetwork folder and edit jdbc.properties file

After apply the patch to geonetwork folder under /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps, we need to make sure the folder belongs to tomcat7 user and tomcat7 group.

cp -pr /home/ubuntu/tern-geonetwork/* /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geonetwork

cd /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geonetwork

chown -R tomcat7.tomcat7 *

Edit /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geonetwork/WEB-INF/config-db/jdbc.properties file, change username and password for db connection

restart tomcat

service tomcat7 start