On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:11:13 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.
Raises hand.
> > 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...
It's not at the same directory level as the patches. For some reason,
that would help me find it.
---
~Randy
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