On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 01:54:56PM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:34:52AM +0100, Frankie wrote > > Incidentally, on the subject of kernel 2.2.10 and make-kpkg, has anyone had > > a compile > > problem just after patching to 2.2.10? > > Normally when I install a patch, I use a modified version of the > > patch-kernel script, > > and then I run make-kpkg kernel_image. > > However, when I upgraded from 2.2.9 to 2.2.10, the compile stopped near the > > end with an > > error which I can't remember, and to get it to compile I discovered I had > > to make-kpkg > > clean, before runnning make-kpkg kernel-image. > > > > Is this just some freak error on my system? or has the makefile failed to > > notice that > > its a later version of the kernel? or does make-kpkg not handle running > > make clean etc > > if necessary?
The kernel-package documentation says to run make-kpkg clean first. > I patched (what I thought were) clean 2.2.9 sources, and got a whole bunch > of 'reversed/already applied' hunks and rejected patches. So, I downloaded > linux-2.2.10.tar.gz and everything worked. I've seen this before with Debian kernel-source packages, which sometimes have some of the bugfix patches already applied. I didn't have any trouble applying the 2.2.10 patch to 2.2.9 here. Bob
