Re: Possible README patch

2001-05-14 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:58:21PM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:58:21 +0600 (LKT) > From: Anuradha Ratnaweera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: Duncan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROT

Re: Possible README patch

2001-05-10 Thread David S. Miller
Anuradha Ratnaweera writes: > > On Sat, 5 May 2001, Russell King wrote: > > > gzip -dc linux-2.4.XX.tar.gz | tar zvf - > > gzip -dc patchXX.gz | patch -p0 > > This does _not_ work for international kernel patch. They assume the > directories lin.2.x.x/ (old) and int.2.x.x/ (new) and no

Re: Possible README patch

2001-05-10 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Russell King wrote: > gzip -dc linux-2.4.XX.tar.gz | tar zvf - > gzip -dc patchXX.gz | patch -p0 This does _not_ work for international kernel patch. They assume the directories lin.2.x.x/ (old) and int.2.x.x/ (new) and not linux/. Therefore it _is_ necessary to `cd linux' a

Re: Possible README patch

2001-05-05 Thread Russell King
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:04:01AM -0400, Duncan Gauld wrote: > Information in the README file says that when patching, the -p0 option is > used with patch (eg tar xvzf .tar.gz | patch -p0). You probably have done: gzip -dc linux-2.4.XX.tar.gz | tar zvf - cd linux gzip -dc patchXX.gz | patch -p

Re: Possible README patch

2001-05-05 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Duncan Gauld writes: > Information in the README file says that when patching, the -p0 option is > used with patch (eg tar xvzf .tar.gz | patch -p0). However I have > never got this to work as I always get something like "can't find file to > patch at line 5". However, replacing -p0 with -p1 s