Re: [TCLUG:13564] Patching Kernel Questions

[George Swan <g-swan@maroon.tc.umn.edu>]

Mmm...Interesting.  Thanks, Mike.

gs

At 03:17 PM 2/14/00 -0600, you wrote:
>George Swan wrote:
>> 
>> I've had the following successes before running into a wall.
>> 
>> I freshly installed Redhat Linux 6.0 out of the box choosing the install
>> option
>> "everything" when it asked me about packages to install.
>[snip]
>> But then I ran into a wall:
>> I then saved a copy of of this new kernel in a separate unlinked directory
>>     "cp -R /usr/src/linux-2.2.5-15 /usr/src/linux-2.2.5-15-old
>> got a copy of patch-2.2.6.gz
>>     "cd /usr/src/linux    - (links to /usr/src/linux-2.2.5-15)
>> and ran
>>     "zcat /root/patch-2.2.6.gz | patch -p1 -E"
>>    ...and it failed.
>
>The kernel source that came with RedHat 6.0 (and several other versions
>of RedHat) has been patched to fix various little problems.  That is why
>the kernel says it is version 2.2.5-15, rather than just 2.2.5.  The
>patch to 2.2.6 will only work if you have a vanilla 2.2.5 kernel.  The
>best course of action is to download the tarball for the newest kernel
>version (yes, I know it's a huge pain on a modem, if that's what you
>have to use).
>
>Of course, once you get a vanilla kernel, you can patch it from then on
>(well, until the 2.4 kernel, at least...)
>
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