Re: Patches vs complete tarballs....

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:16:22 -0400 (EDT)


On 13 Aug 1998 ketil@ii.uib.no wrote:

> > Yes they are (mostly). I've successfully patched from version 1.1.0 up to
> > version 2.1.115, with only the occasional tarball to check. I've just
> > verified my source with 2.1.115.tar.gz (previous downloaded tarball was
> > 2.0.0, I think)
>
> I haven't heard anybody else complain about this, but I managed to mess
> up patching, and downloaded 2.1.115.tar.gz from ftp.funet.fi. I had to
> manually make the two "modules" directories, as well as copy in
> "autoconf.h" from a previous build (kernel patched up to 2.1.107, I
> think) After that, building worked perfectly, and I'm using the kernel
> as we type.
>
> Of course, could be that I did something wrong during unpacking, but I
> can't for the life of me imagine what that might be? Anyway, not a
> problem for me, but I thought you'd might like to know.

RTFM /usr/src/linux/README

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