Bug 82701 – kernel-2.eclass patch for later mm's and all patchsets that modify Makefile

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Joe Kappus 2005-02-20 09:31:05 UTC]

Well, as shown in the URL, the ebuild fails to patch mm.  I dug around a little and found the Makefile would fail.  Found it was a little odd as the patches worked manually.  So I dug around the kernel-2 eclass a bit and found that it was unpacking the kernel, sed'ing the makefile, and THEN patching it with all the other patches like mm.  

So I made a diff that adds a new function and tells it to execute after patching.  That way the patch is already on before the sed'ing happens.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make an ebuild for a mm-based patchset
2.Watch it fail to patch

[Comment 1 Joe Kappus 2005-02-20 09:33:48 UTC]

Created attachment 51686 [details, diff]
fix for kernel-2.eclass

[Comment 2 Fabio Coatti 2005-02-22 03:08:36 UTC]

The patch works for me. The problem was that a tab in 2.6.11-rc3 becomes a sigle white space, causing patch to barf and creating a .rej when applying mm patch.
I've seen this with rc3-mm1 and rc3-mm2

[Comment 3 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-02-22 13:45:13 UTC]

Don't do -ie in one. Always split up sed's args.

[Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 17:17:46 UTC]

Sorry for the delay - now in CVS. Thanks for investigating.