I just wanted to thank you for this procedure. I am compiling a new Ubuntu kernel, and decided to grab 2.6.18. I forgot completely about those August patches--haven't been following closely lately. Regards, Luke On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Gregory Nowak wrote: > 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
