On 30 Jun 2003, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I realize this is a bit of a stupid question, but how do you actually > apply the bk patch 'patch-2.5.73-bk8.bz2'? my formula: 1) unload the kernel tarball under /usr/src, which creates a "linux" subdirectory 2) have the patch file *somewhere* at hand 3) cd into the source directory, and just *test* applying the patch with: # cat <patch-file.bz2> | bunzip2 | patch -p1 --dry-run (no one get on my case about the redundant "cat". i'm aware. :-) the "--dry-run" will just give you feedback about whether the patches would apply cleanly. if there are *any* patch errors or warnings, that's bad -- you have a problem. if it all looks good, run the command again without that option. and that's it. rday
