Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 1999 20:03:06 -0400 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | Re: Newbie question - Patching |
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On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 11:58:13PM +0200, Bjorn Wesen wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Marc Mutz wrote: > > > > have been trying to patch my 2.2.5 kernel to 2.2.10 and it can't get it > > > > to patch cleanly. I haven't really seen any newbie level docs as far as > > > > 3) do "patch -p1 < patch-name" where patch name is patch-2.2.6 up to > > > patch-2.2.10 > > The problem I have with linux patches and patch -pXXX is that patch > behaves differently with the -pXXX option depending on if a new file is > being created or if its patching an old one. > > For example if I use patch -p2 <patch, standing inside the linux > directory, two slashes are stripped off the filenames just as they should > (since they are named like v2.2.0/linux/xxxx). But all new files get one > extra strip, so they end up in the linux root.. which breaks eveything > badly of course. > > So there must be some extra magic needed for patching cleanly... >
the old names are irrelevant. patch only looks at the new ones for determining what file is patched. so you should use -p1.
-- arvind
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