Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#964 closed task (fixed)
Use kernel patches for updates in kernel major/minor versions
| Reported by: | William Harrington | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | CLFS Standard 3.0 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | CLFS Standard GIT |
| Keywords: | Cc: | berzerkula@…, jonathan@… |
Description (last modified by )
Chris and I discussed this, and kept thinking about this.
Rather than update the book and download every kernel version to our ftp server conglomeration, and to save bandwidth, I'd say we do the following:
I'll use our current book for example for linux 3.14.
For the linux version use the version.patchlevel linux-3.14.tar.xz tarball
For the patch update to the latest sublevel patch
The tarball will extract to: linux-3.14
Then we can: cd linux-3.14 && xzcat ../patch-3.14.6.xz | patch -Np1 -i -
We can keep the book updated with the sublevel patch as it upgrades and keep the same major.patchlevel tarball on the server and not have to download the whole kernel source over and over again along with the sublevel included.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 11 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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comment:2 by , 11 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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