Re: Patching and unpatching
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:14:50AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> If i want the ac version of the 2.4.12 kernel i have to download it and patch
> it with the ac patch.
Correct.
> How is it if the new stable is 2.4.13? I can't just take the normal linux
> patch because that is assuming that i use the normal kernel. I can't use the
> ac patch because its assuming i use the standard kernel.
Correct.
> Do i first have to "unpatch" the old ac patch, patch it with the new linus
> patch and then repatch it with the new ac patch?
Exactly. You can unpatch your 2.4.12-ac by using "patch" they way you
usually do, but with adding "-R" (stands for Reverse) to the command
line.
Example:
$ pwd
/usr/local/src/linux
$ zcat patch-2.4.12-ac5.gz | patch -R -p1
But if you always want to have Alan Cox's tree, I would recommend
<http://www.bzimage.org>. They always publish incremental AC patches
(eg. 2.4.12-ac1 -> 2.4.12-ac2), even between different versions of the
Linus tree. This way, when 2.4.13-ac1 will be released, you'll have to
patch 2.4.12 to the latest AC version and then you can download a
patch that will upgrade 2.4.12-ac5 (or whatever will be the last AC
patch for .12) to 2.4.13-ac1.
Regards,
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