Re: Kernel patches (Was: make-kpkg question)

[Alson van der Meulen <alsonm@linuxfreak.com>]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:50:34PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any
> > other kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you
> > would have to make sure that the files that the patch changes
> > are unchanged between 2.2.18 and whatever you will use).
> 
> This brings up another question: According to what I understand
> from the docs, if I already have the original 2.2.17 source
> (apt-get kernel-source-2.2.17), then I can download the newest
> patch-2.2.18-pre* from kernel.org and use it to get the latest
> 2.2.18 kernel source tree.
> 
> Is this correct, and if so, would I then be able to add patches
> that are intended for 2.2.18 kernels on top of the resulting
> source tree, and so on, and so on?
> 
> It's just that a complete kernel source tree is ip to 15 Megs
> nowadays, whereas the patches are only 2.5 Megs. If the results
> are the same, then its obviously preferable to save bandwidth
> (not to mention download time), and use the patches instead.
The kernel-source-2.2.17 in potato is some pre kernel, iirc, the one
in woody should be the final, but check it before attempting to apply
2.2.18 patch (no pre anymore, 2.2.18 is released).
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