Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

From: Grant Coady (lkml_at_dodo.com.au)
Date: 08/04/05

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    To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:33:31 +1000

    Hi Jesper,
    On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 23:28:06 +0200, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:

    I like it, just a little concerned about confusing new user with too
    many alternative patching methods up front...

    >+ This (as usual with Linux and other UNIX like operating systems) can be
    >+done in several different ways.
    >+In all the examples below I feed the file (in uncompressed form) to patch
    >+via stdin using the following syntax:
    >+ patch -p1 < path/to/patch-x.y.z
    >+
    >+but patch can also get the name of the file to use via the -i argument, like
    >+this:
    >+ patch -p1 -i path/to/patch-x.y.z
    >+
    >+If your patch file is compressed with gzip or bzip2 and you don't want to
    >+uncompress it before applying it, then you can feed it to patch like this
    >+instead:

            cat path/to/patch-x.y.z.gz | patch -p1
    >+ zcat path/to/patch-x.y.z.gz | patch -p1
    >+ bzcat path/to/patch-x.y.z.bz2 | patch -p1

    In a howto, I'd prefer _one_ consistent method to reduce the
    reader's confusion.

    The above trio of commands serves me well over many years' kernel
    patching, and it is trivial to up-arrow, home, change compression
    method, retry ... when my fingers get ahead of my mind :)

    Experience users recognise the intent of the commands and use their
    favourite method instead, almost without thinking.

    Spelling:

    s/uncompression/decompression/
    s/adviced/advised/
    s/bandwith/bandwidth/

    Cheers,
    Grant.

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