How to install Alan's patches?

How to install Alan's patches?

[Thomas Foerster]

Hi folks,

sorry for the silly question, but i can't get it to work :

I have linux-2.4.1 unpacked, configured and installed.
Now i want to apply Alan Cox patche (linux-2.4.1-ac9), but i always get
these errors :

[root@space src]# cat /home/puck/patch-2.4.1-ac9 | patch -p0
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla/CREDITS linux.ac/CREDITS
|--- linux.vanilla/CREDITS      Wed Jan 31 22:05:29 2001
|+++ linux.ac/CREDITS   Fri Feb  9 13:19:13 2001
--------------------------
File to patch: 
[root@space src]#

Do i have to create linux.vanilla and linux.ac, or what's the magic?! :-)

Thanx a lot,
  Thomas

Re: How to install Alan's patches?

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 04:03:02PM +0100, Thomas Foerster escreveu:
> Hi folks,
> 
> sorry for the silly question, but i can't get it to work :
> 
> I have linux-2.4.1 unpacked, configured and installed.
> Now i want to apply Alan Cox patche (linux-2.4.1-ac9), but i always get
> these errors :
> 
> [root@space src]# cat /home/puck/patch-2.4.1-ac9 | patch -p0
> can't find file to patch at input line 4
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:

cd src/linux
cat /home/puck/patch-2.4.1-ac9 | patch -p1
                                         ^
                                         |

- Arnaldo

Re: How to install Alan's patches?

[Tigran Aivazian]

Alan's patches are installed like this:

# cd /usr/src
# tar xIf linux-2.4.1.tar.bz2
# cd linux
# patch -sp1 < ../patch-2.4.1-ac6
# chown -R root:root .

Note the "-sp1" and that you need to be _inside_ the tree. Also, you don't
need to waste another process ("cat") and create a pipe, just use shell
input redirection facility "<".

Regards,
Tigran

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Thomas Foerster wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> sorry for the silly question, but i can't get it to work :
> 
> I have linux-2.4.1 unpacked, configured and installed.
> Now i want to apply Alan Cox patche (linux-2.4.1-ac9), but i always get
> these errors :
> 
> [root@space src]# cat /home/puck/patch-2.4.1-ac9 | patch -p0
> can't find file to patch at input line 4
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla/CREDITS linux.ac/CREDITS
> |--- linux.vanilla/CREDITS      Wed Jan 31 22:05:29 2001
> |+++ linux.ac/CREDITS   Fri Feb  9 13:19:13 2001
> --------------------------
> File to patch: 
> [root@space src]#
> 
> Do i have to create linux.vanilla and linux.ac, or what's the magic?! :-)
> 
> Thanx a lot,
>   Thomas
> 
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Re: How to install Alan's patches?

[bradley mclain]

from linux (/usr/src/linux) directory, if the patch is
up a level (/usr/src):

patch -p1 <../patch-2.4.1-ac9

hth,

bradley mclain

ps -- probably a google search with the string 'how to
install ac patches' will find some instructions for
you.

--- Thomas Foerster <puckwork@madz.net> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> sorry for the silly question, but i can't get it to
> work :
> 
> I have linux-2.4.1 unpacked, configured and
> installed.
> Now i want to apply Alan Cox patche
> (linux-2.4.1-ac9), but i always get
> these errors :
> 
> [root@space src]# cat /home/puck/patch-2.4.1-ac9 |
> patch -p0
> can't find file to patch at input line 4
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from
> /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla/CREDITS
> linux.ac/CREDITS
> |--- linux.vanilla/CREDITS      Wed Jan 31 22:05:29
> 2001
> |+++ linux.ac/CREDITS   Fri Feb  9 13:19:13 2001
> --------------------------
> File to patch: 
> [root@space src]#
> 
> Do i have to create linux.vanilla and linux.ac, or
> what's the magic?! :-)
> 
> Thanx a lot,
>   Thomas
> 
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Re: How to install Alan's patches?

[Alan Cox]

> |+++ linux.ac/CREDITS   Fri Feb  9 13:19:13 2001
> --------------------------
> File to patch: 
> [root@space src]#
> 
> Do i have to create linux.vanilla and linux.ac, or what's the magic?! :-)

Calling it linux.ac is one answer. Another one is

cd linux
patch -p1 <../patchfile

Re: How to install Alan's patches?

[Russell King]

Alan Cox writes:
> cd linux
> patch -p1 <../patchfile

patch -p1 -i ../patchfile means that patch won't read the whole patchfile
into a temporary file first, which it will do if patch reads from stdin.

--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html