Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261904AbVCPI4Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:56:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262130AbVCPI4X (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:56:23 -0500 Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:7648 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261904AbVCPI4S (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:56:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4237F4B0.2040509@dgreaves.com> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:56:16 +0000 From: David Greaves User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Matt Mackall , Pavel Machek , "Marcos D. Marado Torres" , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.11.2 References: <4231E75A.4090203@tmr.com><4231E75A.4090203@tmr.com> <20050311190825.GW3120@waste.org> <423747BC.2080703@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: <423747BC.2080703@tmr.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1446 Lines: 42 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Matt Mackall wrote: > >> In your world, do you want to do: >> >> cp -rl linux-2.6.11 linux-2.6.11.5 >> cd linux-2.6.11.5 >> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.1.bz2 | patch -p1 >> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.2.bz2 | patch -p1 >> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.3.bz2 | patch -p1 >> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.4.bz2 | patch -p1 >> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.5.bz2 | patch -p1 >> >> I suspect you might find that tedious, especially if only the last one >> addressed a bug that affected you. > > > Being lazy, I would do > bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.*.bz | patch -p1 > (or similar). But as I posted long ago when this discussion started it > is desirable to have both. > being super lazy I'd type: scripts/patch-kernel . ../Patches nb it's currently broke as mentioned in another thread: Re: [BUG] Re: [PATCH] scripts/patch-kernel: use EXTRAVERSION being fixed though. It will (I assume!) embody whatever rules are needed to revoke patches to go from 2.6.11.5 to 2.6.12 (and since I think the new version has d/l facilities, that should assist in the case of a base kernel d/l of 2.6.11.3 for which no local patches exist to revert prior to patching to 2.6.12) David - 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/