Bug 49119

Summary:	kernel is not patchable
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joe Acosta <josepha48>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Joe Acosta 2001-07-14 00:06:09 UTC

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Description of problem:
Try to patch a redhat kernel with a new patch (2.4.2 to 2.4.3) and it fails.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /usr/src/linux
2) zcat patch-2.4.3.gz | patch -p1


Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-07-14 02:26:41 UTC

The Red Hat kernel is a rather heavily patched 2.4.2.

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2001-07-14 07:34:21 UTC

The patch you are using is against a "upstream", eg Linus released kernel.
THe kernel Red Hat uses has several patches applied to it, the majority
of those is already in 2.4.3 (either because we found a bug and sent the fix to 
Linus or because we took a bugfix from 2.4.3); and as as result you get 
conflicts if you apply that patch. If you want a 2.4.3 kernel, you can also 
download the official 2.4.3-12 upgrade (which is actually 2.4.3 + the ac14 patch 
+ all bugfixes upto 2.4.5-ac16).

Comment 3 Joe Acosta 2001-07-14 18:01:57 UTC

I know that the redhat kernel is heavily patched.  There should still be a way
to patch a redhat kernel to 2.4.3, 2.4.5 and 2.4.6, or Redhat should release
patches soon after Linus patches.

Comment 4 Joe Acosta 2001-07-14 18:03:03 UTC

Where is the officeial 2.4.3-12 and is there a 2.4.6-x?

Comment 5 Arjan van de Ven 2001-07-14 18:07:01 UTC

2.4.3-12 is available in the "updates" directory for 7.1 from our ftp site and 
it's mirrors, and also via the "up2date" update tool. This contains all bugfixes 
upto 2.4.5-ac16

In the "rawhide" directory on the same ftp site you can find snapshots of our 
work-in-progress, which has usually a rather uptodate kernel. However these are
experimental as it's a snapshot which hasn't passed through our QA process.
(right now there is a 2.4.6-ac1 based kernel iirc)