Re: 2.4.8 devel snapshot patch available

["Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@sgi.com>]

pac@fortuitous.com wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:13:04PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > A development snapshot patch against 2.4.8 is now available in
> >
> > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/
> >
> > Steve said this merge was a bit trickier, so all the usual dire warnings
> > about development snapshots certainly apply here.
> 
>  The docs are confusing. Do i need to apply only 1 patch?

Yep, only one patch.  The "cvs" patch will build a cvs tree as of the
date & time the patch was created, you can continue to use cvs to update
this tree.

The "non-cvs" patch will just patch up a kernel to the state cvs was in
at the time, but does not construct a whole cvs tree.

> See the comment about "Do not use..."

The "do not use" is a bit dire, perhaps, it's just that there's no
reason to grab all the cvs info if you're not going to use it as a cvs
tree.

-Eric

> patch-2.4.x-xfs-cvs-<date>.bz2
>        CVS seed patch: patch a vanilla linux 2.4.x tree to a "cvs update -d"
>        capable tree.  The resulting tree includes all kernel and userspace
>        code for XFS.  Do not use this patch unless you are willing stay
>        up-to-date with "current".
> 
> patch-2.4.x-xfs-<date>.bz2
>        Patches to take a vanilla linux 2.4.x tree to an xfs capable
>        kernel. Note that these are kernel only patches, command
>        source can be obtained from the cmd_tars directory.

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.