Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: Possible README patch | Date | Sat, 5 May 2001 05:22:07 -0400 (EDT) |
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Duncan Gauld writes:
> Information in the README file says that when patching, the -p0 option is > used with patch (eg tar xvzf <patch>.tar.gz | patch -p0). However I have > never got this to work as I always get something like "can't find file to > patch at line 5". However, replacing -p0 with -p1 seems to work perfectly. > Maybe the penguin doesn't like me, but still, whenever I've downloaded > patches I had to say -p1, not -p0... ... > -- README Sat May 5 09:51:36 2001 > +++ README Sat May 5 09:52:24 2001 > @@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ > install by patching, get all the newer patch files, enter the > directory in which you unpacked the kernel source and execute:
This is ambiguous: "the directory in which you unpacked the kernel source"
If I do "cd /usr/src" then "tar Ixf linux-2.4.4.tar.bz2", then where did I unpack the kernel source? I think you could argue for /usr/src or /usr/src/linux equally well.
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