Re: Possible README patch

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:04:01AM -0400, Duncan Gauld wrote:
> Information in the README file says that when patching, the -p0 option is 
> used with patch (eg tar xvzf <patch>.tar.gz | patch -p0).

You probably have done:

gzip -dc linux-2.4.XX.tar.gz | tar zvf -
cd linux
gzip -dc patchXX.gz | patch -p0

which will fail since the patch file specifies all files with a path
starting with 'linux/'.  However, the instructions in the README are
for the following situation:

gzip -dc linux-2.4.XX.tar.gz | tar zvf -
gzip -dc patchXX.gz | patch -p0

which may work, but note that patch can be a little tempremental about
the filenames it chooses from the patch file.  The absolute safest way
to apply a patch is:

gzip -dc linux-2.4.XX.tar.gz | tar zvf -
cd linux
gzip -dc patchXX.gz | patch -p1


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