Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

["Chuckk Hubbard" <badmuthahubbard@gmail.com>]

On 8/10/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:47:42PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> >
> > Cool, thank you.
> > BTW, I know it must seem like the most obvious thing in the world, but
> > the more I google and search Debian help, the less answers I find...
> > what do you do when applying two patches tells you:
> > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
> > Does that mean the patches are incompatible?  I'm actually only
> > experimenting with the patches, as I can't find a whole lot of info on
> > the patches either.
> >
> Basically, it means that the part of the code the patch applies to
> appears to have already been patched.  This can happen if you have
> overlapping patches.

That makes sense, that's kind of what I figured.  So... you just guess
which one is more appropriate?


> -Roberto
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