Re: Patching 2.4.20 kernel

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Die, 2002-12-17 at 13:00, Krystian Baclawski wrote:
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> I've a problem with patching 2.4.20 kernel sources with diff-file
> downloaded from apus site. Kernel sources were downloaded from
> www.kernel.org. 'Patch' program says that cannot find file
> Documentation/bigphysarea.txt and there's a lot of rejects and it suggest
> I try to do reverse patching. What's wrong ? Should I apply another patch
> before apus-patch ? I've tried to patch it manually and with script in
> apus-patch archive.

I create the patch against the Debian kernel source provided in the
kernel-source-2.4.20 package. While Debian has a policy of staying as
close to the official kernel source as possible, there may be some
patches applied to it.

The preferred way to get the Linux/APUS kernel source is via CVS.


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast