Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Harald Koenig) | Subject | Re: patch(1)ing (was Re: Problem with 2.0.20) | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:20:38 +0200 (MET DST) |
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> What I always do is just go into the directory I'm patching and use `patch > -p1`. That way it doesn't care at all what the directory prefix is for > either the original or patched trees. Works all the time (unless whoever > made the patch used some weird method to create the patch...) > > For instance, my script to extract a guaranteed clean version of the > latest kernel tree from my archive of linux-2.0.tar.gz and patch-2.0.*.gz:
ever seen the script linux/scripts/patch-kernel ?
tar -xzf linux-2.0.tar.gz linux/scripts/patch-kernel linux ..
should be equivalent to your script and it even does some error checking...
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