Re: prepatching errors

[Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, David Abrahams wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to apply the 2.6.18-rc6 prepatch (from
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.18-rc6.bz2)
> to the 2.6.17.11 sources (from
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2) using

David,
	The -rc series patches should be applied to the last mainline (not 
-stable) release. In your case, you want to patch 2.6.17.

Thanks,
Chase

>  patch -p1 < ~/patch-2.6.18-rc6
>
> and I'm seeing various error messages, e.g.:
>
>  patching file Makefile
>  Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
>  1 out of 39 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej
>
>  ...
>
>  patching file arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c
>  Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
>  Apply anyway? [n]
>  Skipping patch.
>  1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c.rej
>
> Am I doing something wrong?  Is this normal?
>
> I'm downloading the 2.6.17.11 tarball again just in case I've confused
> something, but I've been untaring the raw material from a file I have
> called linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2, so it seems unlikely.
>
> Any advice appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
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