According to Peter B: While burning my CPU.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> >Firstly patching will only work properly against a clean source tree,
> in
> >other words its structure and contents have not been alterd in any way,
> >execpt the normal 'make processes'.
> >
> >You can place the patches where you like, i choose to keep all my
> archives
> >in /home/ftp/pub, now considering this we can now use /home/ftp/pub as
> an
> >example.
> >
> >cd /usr/src
> >gzip -cd /home/ftp/pub/patch-2.0.32.gz | patch -p0 -s
> >gzip -cd /home/ftp/pub/patch-2.0.33.gz | patch -p0 -s
> >gzip -cd /home/ftp/pub/patch-2.0.34.gz | patch -p0 -s
> >gzip -cd /home/ftp/pub/patch-2.0.35.gz | patch -p0 -s
> >
> >Now no output should bee seen, the -s option in patch is 'silent' it
> will
> >only output errors, of which there should be NONE.
> >As you see there is no need to untar the files first.
> >
> >If you are still unsure about "did i get any errors" do;
> >
> >find linux/ -name *.rej
> >There should be no file names returned.
> >
> >cd linux
> >make config etc etc etc..
> >
> >Its as simple as that.
>
>
> OK, I did the gzip..blah, blah...patch bizzo...it asks for what file to
> patch, now you've mentioned /usr/src...this is what's in my /usr/src
> dir...I haven't touched it since the installation of Linux:
>
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Oct 7 17:20 .
> drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Oct 10 1997 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 3 08:49 linux ->
> linux-2.0.31
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Oct 3 08:49 linux-2.0.31
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Oct 3 08:51 redhat
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 7 17:20 src.txt
Seems om, you have a symlink called linux poining to the version number of
linux nothing wrong here.
>
> The src.txt is this example.
> Well, the file to patch obviously ain't here...is this a standard setup
> for RH 5.0?
> The linux dir contains an include dir (nothing else) in the include dir
> is a load of .c files
Then you dont have the linux source installed only include's.
Install the "full" source from your distribution source.
> The redhat dir contains BUILD, RPMS, SOURCES, SPECS and SRPMS...all of
> which contain nothing...where to now???
'man rpm'
> 'Later
> Peter
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