Re: patch(1)ing (was Re: Problem with 2.0.20)

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:20:38 +0200 (MET DST)

> What I always do is just go into the directory I'm patching and use `patch
> -p1`. That way it doesn't care at all what the directory prefix is for
> either the original or patched trees. Works all the time (unless whoever
> made the patch used some weird method to create the patch...)
>
> For instance, my script to extract a guaranteed clean version of the
> latest kernel tree from my archive of linux-2.0.tar.gz and patch-2.0.*.gz:

ever seen the script linux/scripts/patch-kernel ?

tar -xzf linux-2.0.tar.gz
linux/scripts/patch-kernel linux ..

should be equivalent to your script and it even does some error checking...

Harald

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