Apply patch from source tarball

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Hopefully it is a simple question.
When building from an .spec file, how to apply a patch contained within the source tarball?
Have to have the patch beforehand on SOURCES, or extract it from tarball through a prep-sources script or how shall I do it while keeping it reproducible (for instance for Travis processing).

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Usually, patches are kept outside the source tarball.

...
Source0: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tgz
Patch0: shebang-and-thanks.patch
...
%prep
%setup -q -n %{srcname}
%patch0 -p1

See: https://github.com/NethServer/lightsquid/blob/master/lightsquid.spec

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Thanks for answering. I’ve it as in your example (with a local patch and also tested with a patch from an URL). As upstream keeps the patch in a separte directory within the source tarball just thought if there was a way to use it (to avoid having to track eventual changes on the patch file), but will keep it simple as per the example.

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You could call patch with the provided patch file within the tarball. The %setup macro has additional options to expand the tarball contents to a given directory. Not easy to find the right configuration at the first attempt, but fun anyway :slight_smile:

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