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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 01:19:19 +0200
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On Wednesday 03 August 2005 23:46, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> > +What is a patch?
> 
> > +To correctly apply a patch you need to know what base it was generated from
> > +and what new version the patch will change the source tree into. These
> > +should both be present in the patch file metadata.
> 
> This is usurally not true for kernel patches, the directories are mostly
> named a and b. You can however deduce the to-bepatched version and the
> patched version from the filename.
> 
hmm, I'd say the patch filename could be considered "metadata" as well.


> [...]
> 
> Or: bzcat patch1 patch2 patch3 | (cd linux-oldversion && patch -p1)
> 
yes, there are many ways, impossible to list them all, but this might be a
good example to add, just to show application of several patches in one go.

> 
<snip lots of good stuff>

I need to get some sleep now, but I'll add most of your text to the document
tomorrow and post a new patch.

Thanks!


-- 
Jesper