[gentoo-dev] patching the kernel

[gentoo-dev] patching the kernel

[Sean P. Kane]

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I've been looking at the gentoo-sources ebuild and noticed that it seems to have  the kernel tarball and then simply one big patch for the rest. I was hoping to be able to update one of the patches for some testing I wanted to do. Is there any reason that we don't keep the patches seperate to make this sort of work easier? Or am I missing a simple solution to this?

Thanks,
Sean


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[gentoo-dev] Re: patching the kernel

[Paul]

"Sean P. Kane" <spkane@genomatica.com>, on Thu May 09, 2002 [10:50:14 PM] said:
> I've been looking at the gentoo-sources ebuild and noticed that it seems to have  the kernel tarball and then simply one big patch for the rest. I was hoping to be able to update one of the patches for some testing I wanted to do. Is there any reason that we don't keep the patches seperate to make this sort of work easier? Or am I missing a simple solution to this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean
> 

	Hi;


	At least the last two -r? gentoo-sources ebuilds have had
URLs to all the included patch sets. (this is a huge improvement)
Im sure agglomerating them into one big patchset is merely a
matter of convenience.
	Keeping them separate would make it a lot easier to
engage in the kind of experimentation you are talking about by
editing the ebuild...
	Until/if that ever happens, you can download the patch
in question, as specified in the ebuild comment, and use patch -R
to remove it, then modify/replace it with another patch...

Paul
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