Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

Bill Davidsen
2005-03-15T20:35:10Z

Matt Mackall wrote:

> In your world, do you want to do:
>
> cp -rl linux-2.6.11 linux-2.6.11.5
> cd linux-2.6.11.5
> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.1.bz2 | patch -p1
> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.2.bz2 | patch -p1
> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.3.bz2 | patch -p1
> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.4.bz2 | patch -p1
> bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.5.bz2 | patch -p1
>
> I suspect you might find that tedious, especially if only the last one
> addressed a bug that affected you.

Being lazy, I would do
bzcat ../Patches/patch-2.6.11.*.bz | patch -p1
(or similar). But as I posted long ago when this discussion started it
is desirable to have both.

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