Re: [ANNOUNCE] kpatchup 0.02 kernel patching script

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 00:52:53 EST


On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Matt Mackall wrote:

> This is the first release of kpatchup, a script for managing switching
> between kernel releases via patches with some smarts:
>
> - understands -pre and -rc version numbering
> - aware of various external trees
> - automatically patch between any tree in an x.y release
> - automatically download and cache patches on demand
> - automatically determine the latest patch in various series
> - optionally print version strings or URLs for patches
>
> Currently it knows about 2.4, 2.4-pre, 2.6, 2.6-pre, 2.6-bk, 2.6-mm,
> and 2.6-tiny.

Oh i definitely owe you one now, this is replacing the ugly shell script i
had before, i'm mostly using this now to download and patch up trees
before cvs import'ing them.

Thanks!

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