Re: pre-patch-2.1.96-1

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:36:59 +1000

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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:44:16 -0400 (EDT),
Smilax Rotundifolia <smilax@mindmeld.dyn.ml.org> wrote:
>It seems that some of the files that the patch should have patched end up
>in /usr/src, instead of in their correct directories.
>
>Problem?
>
>patch -f < linux/pre-patch-2.1.96-1

Always use patch -p0 in /usr/src, patch -p1 in /usr/src/linux.
Otherwise patch gets confused and puts new files in the wrong place.
See Kernel-HOWTO section 5.1.

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