On 2018/05/16 13:37, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 5/16/18 1:07 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > You can't create a syspatch from it.
> 
> I am talking about a *private* syspatch. Something that I can
> revert later to gain access to the official syspatches again.
> That should be possible.

Oh. In that case, see /usr/src/distrib/syspatch/README, but you're not
going to like it.

> > 
> > If you can get it tested as a patch on a self-built -stable kernel
> > and we can get it committed then there's a *chance* it might be
> > errata worthy in which case you could go back to syspatches instead.
> > 
> 
> Thats the interesting part. How can I "go back to syspatches"? AFAIR,
> when I built stable on 6.1, then it was installed as part as the build
> procedure. My system appeared to be "contaminated" to syspatch and it
> refused to touch it on further updates. There was no way back.
> 
> It would be nice if this had been fixed.

There might be quicker ways, but this ought to work,

syspatch -R
do an "upgrade" install of the release
syspatch

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