a note for those patching 2.6.18 with current cvs

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Greg,

Was wondering how that date thingy worked. I'm off to try it now.

Garrett

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:23:25PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Hi all.
> 
> Since I'm currently in the process of upgrading to linux 2.6.18, I
> thought I'd post this note for anyone who wants to patch current
> speakup from cvs in to a 2.6.18 kernel, but doesn't know how to go
> about doing that.
> 
> First, according to the cvs mailing list, the patches for 2.6.18 were
> submitted into the speakup cvs on August 14th, in the evening
> EDT. Checking out cvs as of August 15th has patched for me into 2.6.18
> without problems.
> 
> Now that we know that, you'll need to modify the checkout script. If
> you don't want to mess with your current checkout script, then make a
> copy of it somewhere else.
> 
> In the checkout script, you want to find the line that reads:
> 
> cvs co -P speakup || exit
> 
> and I've replaced that line with:
> 
> cvs co -D 'August 15 2006' -P speakup || exit
> 
> , which worked for me, though you can use any of the allowed date
> formats as out-lined in the cvs manual. Then, just run the checkout
> script in the way you'd normally run it. Hth some folks.
> 
> Greg
> 
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