> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Josefsson [mailto:gandalf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 12:41 PM > To: Stephen Lawrence Jr. > Cc: Netfilter > Subject: Re: pom for timeout fix failing > > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 19:50, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: > > I am trying to apply the extra/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeouts fix to my > > RedHat 7.3 machine. I have installed the latest kernel-source RPM > > (kernel-source-2.4.18-27.7.x), and I ran "./runme extra, told it the > > source was in /usr/src/linux-2.4, and selected "T" to test the patch. It > > says: > > > > Testing patch extra/ip_conntrack-timeouts.patch... > > Failed to patch copy of /usr/src/linux-2.4 > > > > Am I doing something wrong here? > > Yes, you are trying to use patch-o-matic on a RH kernel. That isn't > tested and won't be supported. Many patches in patch-o-matic requires > that you apply all patches in pending and submitted (./runme pending and > apply all those patches). > This will almost certainly fail with a RH kernel. You are on your own. > While I haven't had to touch a RH system for a couple years now, I had no problems installing a vanilla kernel from source on RH systems in the past. Grab the 2.4.x source from http://kernel.org and you should be all set. --Erik
