[ltp] kernel semi-newbie question

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:12:08PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> I am really getting CRAZY !!! Please help me.
> 
> I am doing EXACTLY the steps I have written down in my personal wiki page:
> 
> http://chefacciamo.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Debian/Kernel
> 
> which in summary is downloading and expanding a pristine 2.6.9 source 
> from kernels.org (checked with .sign), downloading the 2.6.10-rc2 patch 
> (need this to later apply the mm4 patch) and pathing the 2.6.9 with the 
> latter.
> 
> The patching goes on for a longish time and then I get the following 
> error which I absolutely do not understand and am not able to bypass.
> 
> Thank you for any help.

After looking at your your wiki page, I think you're using the kernel
source rather than the patch file as input to the patch command.

The --dry-run option to patch is helpful to make sure things go right.

Note that you can rename the source directory after patching; it
doesn't have to match what's in the patch file (that's what the -p1
option is for).  And you can simpley rename the directory using "mv",
rather than "cp -rl":

% mv linux-2.6.9 linux-2.6.10-rc2  # or whatever

Hope this helps.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u