> > Then without changing the directory, I attempt to patch the directory like
> > so:
> > patch -d linux-to-be-patched -p1 < k2.patch
>
> try:
> cd linux-to-be-patched
> patch -p1 < ../k2.patch
The manual page claims, that
$ patch -d directory -p1 < the.patch
and
$ cd directory
$ patch -p1 < ../the.patch
is _exactly_ equivalent. So if one of them works and the other does not, it
seems like a bug in patch or at least in the man page.
Oh, think I see the fault now. diff seems to handle symlinks wrong. There is
the dontdiff file to take care of that. (-X dontdiff option)
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