On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 01:35:17PM +0200, Johann Spies at Johann wrote > According to the Kernel-HOWTO I should do the following: > > So, continuing with the example above, let's suppose that you have > `patch46.gz' in /usr/src. cd to /usr/src and do a `zcat patch46.gz | > patch -p0' (or `patch -p0 < patch46' if the patch isn't compressed). > You'll see things whizz by (or flutter by, if your system is that > slow) telling you that it is trying to apply hunks, and whether it > succeeds or not. > > When I follow these instructions the following happens: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED](1)$ cat patch-2.2.7-ac4 | patch -p0 > can't find file to patch at input line 4 > Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? > The text leading up to this was: > -------------------------- > |diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from ../exclude > linux.vanilla/Documentation/00-INDEX linux.ac/Documentation/00-INDEX > |--- linux.vanilla/Documentation/00-INDEX Tue Feb 23 14:21:32 1999 > |+++ linux.ac/Documentation/00-INDEX Fri May 7 16:34:31 1999 > --------------------------
The patch was prepared on a system where /usr/src/linux was 'really' /usr/src/linux.vanilla. Try this: # cd /usr/src # ln -s linux linux.vanilla # cat patch-2.2.7-ac4 | patch -p0 That should work. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
