On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:29 +0530, amit mehta wrote:
[...]
> I'm trying to build linux kernel for version 2.6.24 on a machine
> running suse.
> so i downloaded the kernel soruces and patches from :
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
>
> I've downloaded following two compressed files:
> linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2
> patch-2.6.24.bz2
>
> After uncompressing and making symlink as
> ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.24 /usr/src/linux
>
> I gave a dry run for patches as:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] cd /usr/src/linux
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux ] # bzip2 -dc /usr/src/patch-2.6.24.bz2 |
> patch -p1 --dry-run
In principle, that is the way to go.
> patching file .gitignore
> Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n]
>
> Seems that it found already applied patches, so what should i provide
You shouldn't apply patch-2.6.24 on to linux-2.6.24 in the first place
as all of them are already in there.
If you apply patch-2.6.24 on linux-2.6.23, you actually get
linux-2.6.24.
> as answer to
> the above querry(Assume -R? [n] ) , i gave "Y" as answer and then
You do realize what you get with that?
> again there was
> similar question for several other files . so is there any way to be
> able to overwrite the already applied
> patches non interactively(i mean without answering the same question
> for other files as well) ?
You could pass "-R" as parameter to patch. But that merely
reverse-applies (i.e. "removes") the patch (and in the above example
would produce linux-2.6.23).
Bernd
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