upgrading a Slackware kernel

[Steve Holmes]

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I've never seen that as you describe below.  I thought CVS was
completely down like bumpy is currently.  When CVS is up and running,
It has always worked OK for me unless they left a buggy in there:).

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:58:47AM -0600, Stephen Clower wrote:
> Hello Steve,
> 
>      Yes, for some reason the CVS downloads are continuously trying to access Linux 2.4.28 instead of the traditional symlink to /usr/src/linux. Were these files modified in some way that they could only be applied to a specific kernel?
> 
>      As a side note, I downloaded 2.4.28 just for kicks and the patch still failed.
> 
> On Sunday, February 6, 2005, 8:32:03 AM, you stood on a roof and loudly proclaimed:
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> > This does bring up a slightly different angle on this question.  Is
> > there a simple way to isolate the speakup patches and hand apply them
> > to my newest kernel of choice? I recall trying something like this a
> > ways back unsuccessfully.  The resulting download from CVS is
> > apparently not exactly like the tarball that gets built about every 3
> > years <sigh>.  I guess another question might be: how can we build our
> > own tarballs of speakup that we might be able to apply at any time CVS
> > is unavailable like now?
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:14:03PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> I would be happy to send you a 2.6.10 kernel tree with speakup patches
> >> as well as other patches that I use on my system. Most of them come
> >> from the gentoo-dev-sources package from Gentoo Linux, but there are
> >> a couple that I have applied by hand like grsecurity. Let me know if
> >> you're interested.
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Profanity is the language all programmers know best.
> >> Joseph C. Lininger
> >> jbahm at pcdesk.net
> >> Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7
> >> 
> >> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Stephen Clower wrote:
> >> 
> >> >Hello folks,
> >> >
> >> >    Normally I wouldn't be asking this question, but since Linux-Speakup
> >> >    appears to be down indefinitely I could use some pointers. I am
> >> >    running Slackware 10.0 with the Speakup enabled 2.4.26 kernel compiled
> >> >    by Joseph C. Lininger. Currently, there is no software synth support
> >> >    in the kernel, so I figured that if I'm going to recompile the kernel,
> >> >    I might as well upgrade to 2.6.7 for the sake of being up-to-date.
> >> >
> >> >    Normally I would download the kernel sources from kernel.org and run
> >> >    the Speakup CVS checkout script, but for obvious reasons this won't
> >> >    work. Consequently, I've decided to download the 2.6.7 kernel source
> >> >    package from a Slackware 10.0 mirror along with the Speakup-2.4.26
> >> >    folder from the sources directory. Will I still be able to patch the
> >> >    2.6.7 kernel with the Speakup source, or will there be something else
> >> >    I need to do?
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >Steve
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >----------
> >> >Stephen Clower
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> >> >
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> >> >
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> >> 
> 
> 
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