On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Shawn Starr wrote: > What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied? > > For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now > that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to > delete the whole linux dir and untar 2.4.0 again just to apply pre8? reverse the patch for 2.4.1pre7 for example: cd /usr/src/linux ; zcat 2.4.1pre7.gz | patch -p1 -R after that apply pre8 c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/