upgrading a Slackware kernel

[Stephen Clower]

Hello Steve,

     Yes, Bumpy is definitely down. What I'm referring to are the speakup sources available on the Slackware mirrors which contain the patching script and the 2004-12-12 CVS diff.

  For now, Joeseph was kind enough to supply me with a clean patched 2.6.10 source tree, so for the present things should be fine. I hope Bumpy comes back online one of these days.

On Sunday, February 6, 2005, 12:45:35 PM, you stood on a roof and loudly proclaimed:

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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
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>> >> 
>> >> 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
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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