Re: [OT] Problems applying the patch

[Dan D. <dde...@co...>]

This has come up several times. I think the directions on the website need
to fixed or made more clear. That's my job, will do.

From: "Matteo Morini" <mat...@ti...>

> "Michael Spiceland (aka Mike Spice)" wrote:
>
> > I am using RedHat Linux 7.0 with a 2.2.16 kernel.
> >
> > following the instructions exactly, I have:
> >      cd /usr/src/
> >      downloaded ieee1394-2.2.18-20001223
> >      ln -s linux-2.2.16/ linux-2.2
> >      zcat ieee1394-2.2.18-20001223 | patch -p1
> >
> > It tells me:
> >      [root@pancakes src]# zcat ieee1394-2.2.18-20001223 | patch -p1
> >      can't find file to patch at input line 4
> >      Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> >
>
> Dang! :-) ...he's just told you what the problem is: wrong -p option.
Either
> you go:
>
> [root@pancakes src]# zcat ../ieee1394-2.2.18-20001223 | patch -p1
>
> from within /usr/src/linux or
>
> [root@pancakes src]# zcat ieee1394-2.2.18-20001223 | patch -p0
> from /usr/src but after symlinking your linux source directory to
linux-2.2.orig
> (see below why) too.
>
>     Greetings , Matteo
>
> PS: Be sure to use a "vanilla" kernel source, not a
distribution-customized one.
>
> >      The text leading up to this was:
> >      --------------------------
> >      |diff -ruN linux-2.2.orig/CREDITS linux-2.2/CREDITS
> >      |--- linux-2.2.orig/CREDITS     Sat Dec 23 03:54:34 2000
> >      |+++ linux-2.2/CREDITS  Sat Dec 23 03:56:18 2000
> >      --------------------------
> >
>
> See? The patch expects to be applied on a tree named "linux-2.2.orig",
which
> isn't the usual name for a linux source directory. That's why everyone
patches
> using the -p1 option from "one step forward" down the directory tree.
>
> >      File to patch:
> >
> > What do I do?  Here is what I have in my directory.
> > [root@pancakes src]# ls -l
> > total 108
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 mike     mike  87909 Feb  1 17:31
ieee1394-2.2.18-20001223
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      12 Sep 25 13:49 linux -> linux-2.2.16
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      13 Feb  1 17:43 linux-2.2 ->
linux-2.2.16/
> > drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root     4096 Jan 31 23:02 linux-2.2.16
> > drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root     4096 Jan 31 23:02 linux-2.2.16.old
> > drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root     4096 Sep 25 13:54 redhat
> >
> > --
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Mike Spice (Michael Spiceland) - http://www.mikespice.com
> > KLUG President (Knoxville Linux User Group) - http://web.utk.edu/~klug
> > IgWig Solutions (owner) - http://www.mikespice.com/igwig/
> >
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