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[Richard Carlson <>]

Fred;

As Scott says, you need to look at the individual reject files to  
figure out what changes RedHat made to the files.  It shouldn't be too  
difficult, but could be time consuming.  The usual suggestion is to  
grab the native kernel from the kernel.org site instead of using  
distro patched kernels.

BTW, this type of message should go to the   
site instead of the NDT list.

Rich

On Jul 22, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Scott S Bertilson wrote:

>  I have done this a few times on earlier
> versions of RHEL and have had no problems
> with what I suggest here.
>  Looked all the patches over.  They should be
> applied manually with an editor.  The header
> file errors are almost assuredly just the
> result of RedHat back-porting a few extra items
> to the lists of definitions.  When editing in
> the changes to the code, just make sure that
> arguments to the added code are still avail-
> able in the code to be modified.  Thankfully
> that's a very small, contained set of changes
> to apply.
>                         Scott
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:23:32AM -0400, Holloway, Fred wrote:
> > Distro: RHEL 5.3
> > Kernel: 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5PAE
> > Patch:  web100-2.6.18-2.5.12-200609221010.patch
> >
> > Following these instructions
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/wiki/RPMPackagingOtherSofwareCookBook
> >
> >
> > Description:
> >
> > Trying to patch existing kernel with web100 patch provided by  
> > web100.org.
> >
> > When trying to patch the kernel source with the web100 patch I get  
> > the following failed chunks.
> >
> > (the reject files are attached).
> >
> > + echo 'Patch #4000 (web100-2.6.18-2.5.12-200609221010.patch):'
> > Patch #4000 (web100-2.6.18-2.5.12-200609221010.patch):
> > + patch -p1 -s
> > 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/linux/ 
> > netlink.h.rej
> > 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/linux/ 
> > sysctl.h.rej
> > 1 out of 25 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file net/ipv4/ 
> > tcp_input.c.rej
> > 1 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file net/ipv6/ 
> > tcp_ipv6.c.rej
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.19281 (%prep)
> >
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fred

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