On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:

> What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied?
>
> For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now
> that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to
> delete the whole linux dir and untar 2.4.0 again just to apply pre8?

reverse the patch for 2.4.1pre7

for example: cd /usr/src/linux ; zcat 2.4.1pre7.gz | patch -p1 -R

after that apply pre8

c'ya
sven

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