Re: Possible README patch

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 05:21:33 EDT

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

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