Re: Pom patch error

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Hello,

Rob Sterenborg a écrit :
> On Thu, June 22, 2006 14:17, Ali Ozaltin wrote:
> 
>>How can i install patch-o-matic on 2.6.9-34.0.1.Elsmp kernel version ? When
>>i try ./runme pending its giving this error messages ; Do you want to apply
>>this patch [N/y/t/f/a/r/b/w/q/?] y Testing patch submitted/01_2.4.19.patch...
> 
> Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but if not then I think it's strange that POM
> tries to use a 2.4.29 patch on a 2.6.9 kernel.

Yes you're reading wrong, Rob, it's a 2.4.19 patch (to upgrade a 2.4.18 
kernel), not 2.4.29. ;-)

Ali, from this message it looks like you're using a VERY old version of 
the original patch-o-matic (not patch-o-matic-ng) that was intended for 
older 2.4 kernels only and was replaced by patch-o-matic-ng. You should 
use a more recent patch-o-matic-ng (pom-ng) which is intended for recent 
2.4 kernels (above 2.4.18) and 2.6 kernels. As stated by the 2005-Jan-30 
announce in the news section of the Netfilter website, there are now no 
more pom-ng stable releases (I guess a patch is considered stable when 
it's included in the kernel and removed from pom-ng) but only daily 
snapshots available here :

ftp://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/patch-o-matic-ng/snapshot/
  or
http://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/patch-o-matic-ng/snapshot/

Avoid the older pom-ng stable release versions in 
http://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/patch-o-matic-ng/, they're broken.
And of course, apply only the patches you really need.