From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:56:20 GMT
Subject: Re: possible bug in using local branches
Message-ID: <20071009105620.GD31659@planck.djpig.de>
In-Reply-To: <1191924707.10822.94.camel@nc.nor.wtbts.org>

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:11:47PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> 
> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2
> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/genpatches-2.6.22-9.base.tar.bz2
> http://people.linux-vserver.org/~harry/patch-2.6.22.6-vs2.2.0.3-grsec2.1.11-20070905.diff
> 
> First unpack the linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2 archive, genpatches archive and
> add linux kernel to a local repository.
> 
> $ tar -jxf linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2
> $ tar -jxf genpatches-2.6.22-9.base.tar.bz2
> $ cd linux-2.6.22
> $ git-init
> Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
> $ git-add .
> $ git commit -m 'vanilla 2.6.22'
> ...
>  create mode 100644 usr/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 usr/gen_init_cpio.c
>  create mode 100644 usr/initramfs_data.S

It already goes wrong here. The top-level .gitignore contains a
vmlinux*, so the file you later test is never actually committed...

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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