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Re: patch howto???

To: ksimach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: patch howto???
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 28 Oct 2002 15:44:58 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3DBDAC4A.40001@ksimachine.com>
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Patching Red Hat (or other vendor kernels) is tough, and non-trivial.

In general, you only want to use a patch against the codebase it was
generated from.

We have patches against "vanilla" linux kernels from Linus & Marcello,
and instructions for using these patches are at 
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/source.html

We also have some prerelease kernel RPMs based on Red Hat 8.0 /
2.4.18-17 kernels, at
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.2pre2/kernel_rpms/RPMS/

-Eric

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 15:29, Joe St.Clair wrote:
> I have a couple of systems I a running RH 7.2 - using the XFS 2.4.9-31 
> kernel
> 
> I would like to update these systems to 2.4.18-17.7, and need to merge 
> in the XFS bits.
> 
> Does anyone know of a good howto to patch and create a RedHat kernel RPMs?
> 
> The last kernels I have compiled was on a Slackware system.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Joseph St.Clair
> 
> 
-- 
Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.         651-683-3102


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