Re: applying patch

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>]

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:33:15AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:50:37AM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to try 2.6.12-rc2.  I downloaded and extracted the latest
> > 2.6.11 from kernel.org,
> 
> No guarantees, but:
> 
> Please:
> Get 2.6.11. Nothing else. Not 2.6.11.7. Unpack
> 2.6.11. And apply 
> <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.12-rc2.bz2>
> to 2.6.11. Not to 2.6.11.7 ... :)
> 
> This should work. At least it did here a few minutes ago ...
> 
> Something like:
> 
> tar -xzvf linux-2.6.11.tar.gz
> cd linux-2.6.11/
> bzip2 -cd  ../../patch-2.6.12-rc2.bz2 | patch -p1 --dry-run | less
> 
> If you see everything went well give him the whole package:
> 
> bzip2 -cd  ../../patch-2.6.12-rc2.bz2 | patch -p1


And I just tested this: After proceding as I explained above you can
make it to an even newer (4 days, as it seems ... :) kernel
version by doing this:

Get
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2/2.6.12-rc2-mm2.bz2>

and apply it to the already patched sources from above:

bzip2 -cd  ../../2.6.12-rc2-mm2.bz2 | patch -p1 --dry-run | less
bzip2 -cd  ../../2.6.12-rc2-mm2.bz2 | patch -p1

Enjoy :)

Regards
  Wolfgang

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