From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 05:22:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 05:22:16 -0400 Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu ([129.63.8.2]:64518 "EHLO saturn.cs.uml.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 05:22:10 -0400 From: "Albert D. Cahalan" Message-Id: <200105050922.f459M7E252665@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: Possible README patch To: duncan@gauldd.freeserve.co.uk (Duncan Gauld) Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 05:22:07 -0400 (EDT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01050510040100.05769@pc-62-31-91-153-dn> from "Duncan Gauld" at May 05, 2001 10:04:01 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Duncan Gauld writes: > Information in the README file says that when patching, the -p0 option is > used with patch (eg tar xvzf .tar.gz | patch -p0). However I have > never got this to work as I always get something like "can't find file to > patch at line 5". However, replacing -p0 with -p1 seems to work perfectly. > Maybe the penguin doesn't like me, but still, whenever I've downloaded > patches I had to say -p1, not -p0... ... > -- README Sat May 5 09:51:36 2001 > +++ README Sat May 5 09:52:24 2001 > @@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ > install by patching, get all the newer patch files, enter the > directory in which you unpacked the kernel source and execute: This is ambiguous: "the directory in which you unpacked the kernel source" If I do "cd /usr/src" then "tar Ixf linux-2.4.4.tar.bz2", then where did I unpack the kernel source? I think you could argue for /usr/src or /usr/src/linux equally well.