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From: zentara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 March 1999 02:19
Subject: [SuSE Linux] kernel patching procedures?
>
>Hi,
>One thing I'm questionable about, is on how to
>patch kernels up to a new level.
>
>Say there is kernel 2.2.0
>and patch 2.2.1
>and patch 2.2.2
>
>To move my 2.2.0 source up to the
>2.2.2 level, do I need to aplly the
>2.2.1 patch , followed by the 2.2.2 patch?
>
>Or can you just apply the latest patch to attain that level?
>
>In other words is everything in the 2.2.1 patch included in the
>2.2.2 patch?
>--
AFAIK you must apply each patch in numerical order. I was runnung 2.2.0 and
over the last week or so applied patches 2.2.1 then 2.2.2 and last weekend
patch 2.2.3 - no problems. Also you cannot use a wildcard i.e patch*,
because the * wildcard uses ASCII order and not numeric order.
jonski
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