Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:04:36 -0500 (CDT) | From | Chase Venters <> | Subject | Re: prepatching errors |
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, David Abrahams wrote:
> > Hi, > > I'm trying to apply the 2.6.18-rc6 prepatch (from > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.18-rc6.bz2) > to the 2.6.17.11 sources (from > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2) using
David, The -rc series patches should be applied to the last mainline (not -stable) release. In your case, you want to patch 2.6.17.
Thanks, Chase
> patch -p1 < ~/patch-2.6.18-rc6 > > and I'm seeing various error messages, e.g.: > > patching file Makefile > Hunk #1 FAILED at 1. > 1 out of 39 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej > > ... > > patching file arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] > Apply anyway? [n] > Skipping patch. > 1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c.rej > > Am I doing something wrong? Is this normal? > > I'm downloading the 2.6.17.11 tarball again just in case I've confused > something, but I've been untaring the raw material from a file I have > called linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2, so it seems unlikely. > > Any advice appreciated! > > Thanks, > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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