On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:20:32 -0400 Kevin Winchester <[email protected]> wrote:
> On November 13, 2007 08:15:41 am [email protected] wrote:
> > The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-13-04-14.tar.gz has been uploaded to
> >
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-11-13-
> >04-14.tar.gz
> >
> > It contains the following patches against 2.6.24-rc2:
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> How exactly do I go about trying out this snapshot? I did the following:
>
> - exported 2.6.24-rc2 from my cloned git tree to a separate folder
> - installed quilt
> - extracted the patches to the "patches" directory at the top level of the
> 2.6.24-rc2 tree
> - copied the list of patches from your mail into a "series" file which I
> placed in the "patches" directory
The tarball contains a copy of the series file. For some reason LARGE
numbers of people miss it and ask me "hey, where's the series file?". Odd.
> - ran "quilt push -a"
>
> The result was that all of the patches seem to have been applied, but there
> were many offsets and at least one fuzzed patch. Should they have applied
> cleanly? Is quilt the way I am supposed to be applying these patches?
Yes, the -mm patches contain large amount of fuzz. I'll occasionally go in
and do a mass defuzzing (shaving?) but it all goes fuzzy again within a
day.
I _could_ rediff all the time, but I keep all the patches under revision
control and I often need to grab the previous version of a patch (when I've
just dropped an earlier patch, and that earlier patch had caused me to redo
this patch). Having lots of revisions due to unnecessary rediffing would
complicate that.
> Is
> there a reason that there is no "series" file in the archive with the
> patches?
It's in there ;)
btw, I put the patches in a directory called "broken-out" so that you can
untar them in your kernel tree and not have them stomped all over your
existing patches/ directory. symlink it...
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