On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 06:07:31PM +0000, John wrote: > I've obtained patches 2 to 5 but now have a problem in applying them. > My /usr/src had only 'kernel-sources-2.2.1' (and the .tar.gz source which > I'm leaving there for the time being) until I moved 'patch-2.2.xx' from the > download site. > > When I do 'zcat patch2.gz | patch -p0' I get:-
Cd into your kernel source dir, and use '-p1' instead. > I discover the quoted lines are the first three text lines of the patch, > and the fourth is I presume machine instructions viz, > @@-1403,6 +1403,13@@ These numbers are actually line numbers - it's telling patch the general location of where to look in the file. I think the format is like this: - look at line 1403 - 6 lines are to be removed - look at the new line 1403 - 13 lines are to be added Someone please correct me if I messed that up. :-) > Can anyone help - I feel I understand what is required generally, > but not specifically. Is it that I don't have a directory called > Linux in /usr/src? (everything I read seems to assume I have) > I don't mind messing-up things and having to reinstall, but it > wouldn't help I'd still not be able to apply patches. You could rename your kernel-source-2.2.1 to whatever the patch is expecting and run patch again with the arguments you used, but you are better off to cd into the the dir and use '-p1', since everybody seems to have different names for their top level directory. :-) -- [ Matthew Gregan ] [ GPG ID: B63A1E95 ] [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ GPG fingerprint: FB83 2911 F170 B31C 9E4A E382 CA8A A2F6 B63A 1E95 ]
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