Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
#964 closed task
Use kernel patches for updates in kernel major/minor versions — at Initial Version
| 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
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.
