Good evening, Christoph,
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, [iso-8859-1] Christoph Brüninghaus wrote:
> i am trying to patch 2.4.0test1 with the patches supplied by Alan.
> For this i have modified the patch-kernel-script in /usr/src/linux/scripts
> in order to work with the patches (the original script only works with patches
> named patch-x.x.xx.gz, not with patch-x.x.xxtest1-acx.gz)
>
> The first patch is applied correctly, but the second patch causes the
> following errors:
>
> "erlenhagen:/usr/src # linux/scripts/patch-kernel
> Current kernel version is 2.4.0
> 2.4.0test1-ac1
> Applying patch-2.4.0test1-ac1 (gzip)... done.
> 2.4.0test1-ac2
> Applying patch-2.4.0test1-ac2 (gzip)... Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Skipping patch.
> 3 out of 3 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file CREDITS.rej
> Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Skipping patch.
[snip]
You don't need to apply each of the -ac patches in order, you only
apply the latest one. Alan is up to -ac18, so you can ignore -ac1
through -ac17 and just apply 2.4.0-test1 and -ac18.
Cheers,
- Bill
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