Re: Hoping for some help with this kernel error
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 01:54:56PM +0930, John Pearson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:34:52AM +0100, Frankie wrote
> > Incidentally, on the subject of kernel 2.2.10 and make-kpkg, has anyone had a compile
> > problem just after patching to 2.2.10?
> > Normally when I install a patch, I use a modified version of the patch-kernel script,
> > and then I run make-kpkg kernel_image.
> > However, when I upgraded from 2.2.9 to 2.2.10, the compile stopped near the end with an
> > error which I can't remember, and to get it to compile I discovered I had to make-kpkg
> > clean, before runnning make-kpkg kernel-image.
> >
> > Is this just some freak error on my system? or has the makefile failed to notice that
> > its a later version of the kernel? or does make-kpkg not handle running make clean etc
> > if necessary?
The kernel-package documentation says to run make-kpkg clean first.
> I patched (what I thought were) clean 2.2.9 sources, and got a whole bunch
> of 'reversed/already applied' hunks and rejected patches. So, I downloaded
> linux-2.2.10.tar.gz and everything worked.
I've seen this before with Debian kernel-source packages, which
sometimes have some of the bugfix patches already applied.
I didn't have any trouble applying the 2.2.10 patch to 2.2.9 here.
Bob
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