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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 02:28:14 -0500
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>
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To: lmj@homemail.com
CC: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Patch problem
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lmj@homemail.com wrote:

> Hello
>
> This is practically identical to a question posted by
> Jan Jonasson on 2 May. Using the answers posted in that
> mail thread I still have a problem with this new patch
> for 2.4.4.
>
> I'm trying to apply the
> linux-2.4.4-xfs-cvs-05152001.patch.gz on a 2.4.4 kernel
> according to the instructions at
> http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/1.0_source.html .

Those instructions do not apply to this patch

were where you when applied the patch?
you should be one level up from the linux base.
Look at the path names in the patch should make more
sense after that.

>
>
> I apply the patch in the /usr/src/linux directory, using
> the -p1 flag.
>
> I get the following messages:
>
> patching file linux/Documentation/CVS/Entries
> patching file linux/Documentation/CVS/Repository
> patching file linux/Documentation/CVS/Root
> can't find file to patch at input line 326553
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -rNu linux-2.4.4/linux/Documentation/Changes
> linux-2.4-xfs/linux/Documentation/Changes
> |--- linux-2.4.4/linux/Documentation/Changes Wed Apr 11 21:02:27 2001
> |+++ linux-2.4-xfs/linux/Documentation/Changes Wed May 2 01:22:13 2001
> --------------------------
> File to patch:
>
> Similar errors are reported from other subdirectories,
> not just Documentation. All of them seem to have one
> thing in common and that is that they want to patch a
> file in a CVS subdirectory.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Another question. How stable is this patch compared to
> patches for 2.4.2 and 2.4.3?
>
> Thanks
> Magnus Johansson
> (I am not on the mailing list.)
>
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