Re: stupid kernel question
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:44:17AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 11-May-2001 JParker@coinstar.com wrote:
> > G'Day !
> >
> > After I have install the kernel sources from a Debian package, can I use
> > the patch files from kernel.org to bring it up to whatever release I want
> > ?
> >
> > For example if I have installed a 2.2.17 .deb package , can I use the
> > patches to bring it up to 2.2.19, or is it better to use a new .deb
> > package ?
> >
>
> the debian kernel MAY be subtly different from the released kernel.org kernel
> so patches may not apply cleanly. I have also found that by using patches to
> upgrade I sometimes missed things or had cruft left behind. No one likes the
> 20mb downloads, but it is how I do it.
It's annoying that there doesn't seem to be an rsync mirror of the kernel
tree, since one could use that after applying patches to make sure
everything was in sync...
The PowerPC kernel has a couple of rsync trees available, and it's really
handy.
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