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Re: advice on a patch set



martin f krafft wrote:

> I am trying to package the swsusp2 kernel patch, which comes in
> hundred little files. My thought was to simply concat these files
> into one large patch for use with kpatches... however, this does not
> work because some files are created by early patches and later
> modified. Since kpatches first tests the patch with --dry-run, it
> will fail when the later patches do not find a file to patch.

Have you considered just using Bernard's apply script that is included
with the upstream swsusp package?  I'm pretty sure it takes care of
testing with --dry-run and backing out previous patches if one of them
fails.

Cameron.

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