On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:29 +0530, amit mehta wrote: [...] > I'm trying to build linux kernel for version 2.6.24 on a machine > running suse. > so i downloaded the kernel soruces and patches from : > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ > > I've downloaded following two compressed files: > linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2 > patch-2.6.24.bz2 > > After uncompressing and making symlink as > ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.24 /usr/src/linux > > I gave a dry run for patches as: > [root@venus ] cd /usr/src/linux > [root@venus /usr/src/linux ] # bzip2 -dc /usr/src/patch-2.6.24.bz2 | > patch -p1 --dry-run In principle, that is the way to go. > patching file .gitignore > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] > > Seems that it found already applied patches, so what should i provide You shouldn't apply patch-2.6.24 on to linux-2.6.24 in the first place as all of them are already in there. If you apply patch-2.6.24 on linux-2.6.23, you actually get linux-2.6.24. > as answer to > the above querry(Assume -R? [n] ) , i gave "Y" as answer and then You do realize what you get with that? > again there was > similar question for several other files . so is there any way to be > able to overwrite the already applied > patches non interactively(i mean without answering the same question > for other files as well) ? You could pass "-R" as parameter to patch. But that merely reverse-applies (i.e. "removes") the patch (and in the above example would produce linux-2.6.23). Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
