Re: how to unpatch?

[Michael Heironimus <mkh01@earthlink.net>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:24:52AM -0700, eric lin wrote:
> Dear Linuxer:
> 
>   I follow the Readme in 2.5.50, do
>  gzip  -cd patch-2.5.50-ac1.gz | patch -p0
> 
> but then it response
> 
> can't find file to patch at input line 4
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude 
> linux.50/arch/alpha/defconfig linux.50-ac1/arch/alpha/defconfig
> |--- linux.50/arch/alpha/defconfig      2002-11-25 15:11:47.000000000 +0000
> |+++ linux.50-ac1/arch/alpha/defconfig  2002-12-03 20:54:30.000000000 +0000
> --------------------------

cd into your linux source tree and use "patch -p1" instead.

-- 
Michael Heironimus