Linux kernel: patch early, patch often 2.6.11.10
Saturday 21 May 2005 ◷ 16:24
After spending to much time trying to jump from some mutilated linux installation to some latest kernel I decided to keep up with the patchlevels. Which means at one point I started with 2.4.18bf from a net-install and then managed to gradually upgrade it to the latest version. The big advantage is that it's easier to figure out what went wrong with a small patch, while it's almost impossible to realise what broke and how when bigger steps are taken, even more when they are mixed with hardware changes. The trap of running a server is of course that you get in the habit of only rebooting for a hardware upgrade, and then combine that upgrade with all the accumulated software and firmware upgrades that require a reboot. And then it's hard to find out what's to blame when things go wrong...
The procedure is:
- Get the incremental patches from kernel.org (not the non-incremental patch)
- Run bzcat ../patch-n.n.n.n-n+1.bz2 | patch -p1 in /usr/src/linux
- Follow the packaging steps
nasty
Monday 23 May 2005 ◷ 16:57
re: Linux kernel: patch early, patch often 2.6.11.10
Geek met hoofdletter G!
rolipe
Monday 23 May 2005 ◷ 21:50
re: Linux kernel: patch early, patch often 2.6.11.10
2. I only do this for one box.
3. I don't write kernel-patches myself.
(But those are probably the capitals EEK ;-)
nasty
Tuesday 31 May 2005 ◷ 09:20
re: Linux kernel: patch early, patch often 2.6.11.10
l33t d00d