Re: Confused about which patch to take

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 13:51, Gabe E. Nydick wrote:
> I need to try an upgrade to 2.4.17, but when I go to ftp://oss.sgi.com, in
> the Release-1.0.2 dir, there is only a patch for 2.4.14.  Then when I look
> in patches, there is linux-2.4.17-xfs-2002-02-03.cvs-patch.bz2 which looks
> like an entire patched kernel.  Then in the patches/2.4.17 dir there is
> 2.4.17 but from Jan 23, not Feb 03.  What do I get?????

That depends on what you want.  According to the READMEs in the
aforementioned directories...

Release-1.0.2/README (paraphrased)
This dir contains the 1.0.2 release.  This release supports 2 kernels,
2.4.14 and Red Hat's 2.4.9 kernel.  If you want "Released" XFS, these
are your choices.

patches/README
Everything under here is a snapshot.

linux-2.4.x-xfs-<date>.cvs-patch.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.  You probably do not want to use this patch unless you 
	need to seed a CVS tree to stay up to date with XFS development on a i
	regular basis.

patches/2.4.17/README
This directory contains a snapshot of the XFS CVS tree at the start of
kernel 2.4.17.  The snapshot can be downloaded as a single patch
containing all the XFS kernel code, it has also been split into several
patches to make it easier to port XFS to other architectures and for
distributors to include XFS in their distributions.

You can apply the -all-i386 (ia64) patch to get a snapshot of XFS for
2.4.17-i386 (ia64) as of 2002-01-23 04:32 UTC.




so: do you want "released" XFS, or a snapshot?  Do you want a snapshot
of the entire CVS tree as of 2/3/2001, or would you like patches split
up by functionality, as of 1/23/2001?  Options abound.

-Eric



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