Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 1996 23:30:27 +0100 (MET) | From | Marco Mariani <> | Subject | Re: aplying patches |
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On 3 Nov 1996, Nick Holloway wrote:
> How does the idea of a script which does the following grab you? > > * when given the directory containing the kernel source, and the > directory containing the patches, automatically brings the kernel > up to the current version.
done. it also fingered @linux.cs.helsinki.fi to look up the latest release.
> * Know the correct flags for applying the patches. > * It checks for reject files, to let you know if the patch failed > * It cleans up the original files after patching.
done, done, done. It also applied reverse patches to downgrade a kernel, and handled full zipped source trees. It called menuconfig, make and lilo.
> * Makes coffee for you to drink while the new kernel is building.
nope. But I did all of the above in perl, with a nice dialog interface, before Linus started with naming the kernel "pre-2.0" or "this-is-2.0-but-not-quite", and I asked to myself "why can't people simply pipe zcat with patch?"
All The Best, Marco
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