On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 at 9:11pm, John Kerr Anderson wrote
> I have downloaded the patch xfs-1.1-2.4.18-all.patch.bz2 into the /usr/src
> directory, but cannot uncompress it at all. If I try to use the command
>
> minikerr:/usr/src# tar -jxvf xfs-1.1-2.4.18-all.patch.bz2
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> minikerr:/usr/src#
>
> minikerr:/usr/src# gunzip xfs-1.1-2.4.18-all.patch.bz2
> gunzip: xfs-1.1-2.4.18-all.patch.bz2: unknown suffix -- ignored
> minikerr:
>
> Can anyone help me or giving me pointers on how to uncompress this patch
> so it is usable? I've never had a problem like this before and it is
> rather frustrating. :-)
bunzip2 xfs-1.1-2.4.18-all.patch.bz2
or:
cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.18
bzcat xfs-1.1-2.4.18-all.patch.bz2 | patch -p1
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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