Does kdb-v2.1-2.4.18-* works with Redhat 7.3 distribution?

Keith Owens kaos at sgi.com
Tue Aug 6 17:38:43 PDT 2002


On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:12:59 -0700, 
"Frank Wang" <frank at atvideo.com> wrote:
>Here is my new setup,
>
>-kernel: from the www.kernel.org, version 2.4.18
>-kdb: all the patches from the oss.sgi.com
>
>Results:
>kdb-v2.1-2.4.18-common-1: patched perfectly,
>kdb-v2.1-2.4.18-common-2: patched with bunch of "reverse patch detected"
>warnings,
>kdb-v2.1-2.4.18-common-3: patched with bunch of "reverse patch detected"
>warnings,

Only apply the latest common patch, not all of them.  See the README in the
patch directory.

>kdb-v2.1-2.4.18-i386-1:   patch failed.
>
>Looking at the patch i386 patch file, it tries to patch into a directory
>kdb-2.4-arch-i386/... This is not a valid directory with the 2.4.18 kernel
>distribution.

That is just the top level directory name for the repository where I
keep the i386 specific kdb code.  use patch -p1 with kdb common, i386,
ia64 etc. patches.




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