[QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to 2.4.1pre8)

[QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to 2.4.1pre8)

[Shawn Starr]

What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied?

For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now
that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to
delete the whole linux dir and untar 2.4.0 again just to apply pre8?

thanks,

Shawn S.


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Re: [QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to 2.4.1pre8)

[Sven Koch]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:

> What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied?
>
> For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now
> that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to
> delete the whole linux dir and untar 2.4.0 again just to apply pre8?

reverse the patch for 2.4.1pre7

for example: cd /usr/src/linux ; zcat 2.4.1pre7.gz | patch -p1 -R

after that apply pre8

c'ya
sven

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Re: [QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to 2.4.1pre8)

[Brian Gerst]

Shawn Starr wrote:
> 
> What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied?
> 
> For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now
> that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to
> delete the whole linux dir and untar 2.4.0 again just to apply pre8?

You can unapply -pre7 (patch -R) or make a hard-linked tree to apply the
pre patches to.  Patch will break the hard links on the files it
modifies, so the second tree hardly takes up any disk space.  To make
the second tree do:

cp -al linux-2.4.0 linux-2.4.1-pre8

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Re: [QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to 2.4.1pre8)

[Tim Waugh]

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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:32:30PM +0100, Sven Koch wrote:

> reverse the patch for 2.4.1pre7
> 
> for example: cd /usr/src/linux ; zcat 2.4.1pre7.gz | patch -p1 -R
> 
> after that apply pre8

You can also use interdiff:

$ interdiff 2.4.1pre7 2.4.1pre8 | patch -p1

It's mostly reliable.

Tim.
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Re: [QUESTION]: Applying patches ontop of patches (2.4.1pre7 to2.4.1pre8)

[Shawn Starr]

Thanks to everyone who replied :)

Sven Koch wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:
>
> > What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied?
> >
> > For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now
> > that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to
> > delete the whole linux dir and untar 2.4.0 again just to apply pre8?
>
> reverse the patch for 2.4.1pre7
>
> for example: cd /usr/src/linux ; zcat 2.4.1pre7.gz | patch -p1 -R
>
> after that apply pre8
>
> c'ya
> sven
>
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