Messages in this thread |  | | From | Bradley Ward Allen <> | Subject | Re: patches from 2.0.x to 2.1.x | Date | 22 Oct 1996 17:04:24 -0400 |
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bnb@looking-glass.org (Brian Blackmore) writes:
> Patch has been known to go wrong (mainly due to the human element) so > it[']s a good idea to download the full source every once in a while > anyway. Besides that it saves Linus work :-)
You must be crazy, or have a T1. The day there isn't contiguous patches available for Linux is the day I switch to FreeBSD, NetBSD or NT 4.0. I have missapplied patches only once, and the horrible, cruel, and unusual punishment I received by having to download a full kernel source was way overboard compared to the error that I made, and yet somehow it has prevented me from ever making that mistake again (The mistake? Patching on a near-full filesystem. The solution? You don't want to know. Yes, patching patch would be nice but when?)
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