id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
964	Use kernel patches for updates in kernel major/minor versions	William Harrington	clfs-commits@…	"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[[BR]]
For the patch update to the latest sublevel patch

The tarball will extract to: linux-3.14[[BR]]
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."	task	new	minor	CLFS Standard 3.0	BOOK	CLFS Standard GIT			berzerkula@… jonathan@…