Re: kernel upgrade options
on 06 Nov 99, Matthew Gregan wrote...inter alia
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>On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 05:57:58PM +0000, John wrote:
>> I couldn't get this to work. My patches were in /usr/src and I got 'no
>> such file or directory', so I moved them into the kernel source dir.
>> and did -p0 thinking that should be right. No luck, so I did -p1 -
>> there was action, but only 33 times 'Hunk xx failed at xxxx' and
>> quite a few 'succeeded' at xxxx with fuzz 1 or 2 and a final line
>> 'patch: **** malformed patch at line 2121: s'.
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>Okay, it sounds like your kernel source isn't a pure one (I'm guessing
>here). Patch is quite smart, and can patch files even if they're
>different to what it's expecting, although it'll only work if they're a
>little different, not a huge amount.
>
>It might be easier to download a fresh kernel source tarball from one of
>the kernel.org mirrors and try from there. You could download the
>latest, so you don't have to do any patching - but if you want to learn
>to patch, download an older one and apply the patches you've got to it.
>The only problem is a kernel source tarball is about 13MB.
>
>I'm pretty sure the source you extracted from the Debian package should
>be a standard kernel though, so maybe there's something messed up. rm
>the source dir and extract it again, then try patching it...
>
Many thanks for the detail in your response. It will take me some time to
absorb and tryout. Will let you know how I get on. Time is not an issue
for me as I have two other Linux distributions working to give cover
until I get up to speed with Debian - the need for knowledge and
expertise is one of its main attractions to me.
Regards.
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