Hi,
Thanks for the info, after doing some searching online, I
just found out that the kernel sources from the fedora
repositories are already prepatched.
-thanks
-Pavan
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Guo Hongruan <camelguo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have not used Fedora. But I am familar with debian.
>
> For debian
>
> There is a package named linux-patch-debian-2.6.18, which contains the
> patches used to produce the prepackaged linux source tree for debian. After
> installing it, there is a directory named
> '/usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.18/debian' which contains all the patches
> for debian kernel source. the 'series' defines the order of applying patch.
>
> For SUSE Enterprise Server
>
> There is a file named README.SUSE in
> '/usr/share/doc/packages/kernel-source'.
> # Install the package:
>
> $ rpm -i kernel-source.src.rpm
>
> # Unpack the patches and the kernel sources:
>
> $ cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCES
> $ for f in patches.*.tar.bz2; do \
> tar xfj $f || break; \
> done
> $ tar xfj linux-2.6.5.tar.bz2
>
> # Apply the patches
>
> $ for p in $(./guards $(./arch-symbols) < series.conf); do
> patch -d linux-2.6.5 -p1 < $p || break
> done
> From above, I think maybe the patches for suse kernel source are in
> kernel-source.src.rpm. But I am not sure.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Pavan Kandepet 写道:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Is there anyway to know what patches have been applied to a stock
>> kernel?
>> I have a Fedora 9 on an x86 machine and I want to recompile the
>> kernel, I'd
>> like to know what patches have been applied so that I can apply
>> them before
>> recompiling.
>> -thanks
>> -Pavan
>>
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