Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > If you want to build a new kernel RPM for testing this patch something along > the lines of the following should work. > > 1. Extract the patch file from mercurial > > hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg > cd xen-unstable.hg > hg log --patch -r 0c0ef61de06b > ~/rpm/SOURCES/large-disks.patch > > 2. Grab the latest kernel src.rpm file & install it locally > > rpm -ivh kernel-XXXXXX.src.rpm > cd ~/rpm/SPECS > > 3. Edit the kenrel.spec file, incrementing release tag, > > Release: %{release}.1xen2tbtest > > Add > > Patch30000: large-disks.patch > > And in the %setup section > > %patch30000 -p1 > > 4. Rebuild the Xen kernel for i686 > > rpmbuild --target i686 --define 'buildup 0' --define 'buildsmp 0' > --define 'buildkdump 0' -ba kernel-2.6.spec I did this, but the patch failed: Patch #30000 (large-disks.patch): + patch -p1 -s The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |changeset: 12496:0c0ef61de06b |user: kfraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |date: Tue Nov 21 10:16:58 2006 +0000 |summary: [BLK] Handle block devices with more than 2^32 sectors. | |diff -r 82ba3c086e6c -r 0c0ef61de06b linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/common.h |--- a/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/common.h Tue Nov 21 09:26:43 2006 +0000 |+++ b/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/common.h Tue Nov 21 10:16:58 2006 +0000 -------------------------- File to patch: To be honest, it was creating the patch that I would struggle with - I'm OK on modifying spec files,etc. Any idea what's wrong? R. -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
