Error Building Fedora Kernel - problem in applying patch

[Vaibhav Jain]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar <
chambilkethhIakur at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>  On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Vaibhav Jain <vjoss197 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to build fedora 15 kernel (2.6.39) on a fedora 15 machine
>> (2.6.38.8.-25.fc15.i686.PAE).
>> I am following the document :
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
>> I made a few changes to the source code (only prink statements) and
>> generated a patch as given in the doc by the name *
>> linux-2.6-my-new-patch.patch*.
>> I added the following lines to the spec file  at the appropriate places:
>>   *Patch 20005:  linux-2.6-my-new-patch.patch*
>> *  ApplyPatch   linux-2.6-my-new-patch.patch*
>>
>> But as soon as I build the kernel I get the error :
>>
>> *ERROR: Patch linux-2.6-my-new-patch.patch not listed as a source patch
>> in spec file*
>> *error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp/t07KDk (%prep)*
>> **
>>
> There is your error message, which states that it cannot find the patch,
> possibly the files are not in correct directory(or the permission issue)
> Did you check the location of patch and spec file? are the files in correct
> directories?
> BTW, a better place for this question would have been #fedora channel on
> irc.freenode.net.
>
>
>>  *RPM build error: *
>> *        Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp/t07KDk (%prep)*
>>
>>
>> I am doing everything according to the doc. Please let me know what could
>> have gone wrong.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Vaibhav Jain
>>
>>
>>
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Hi,

I have followed the instructions in the doc as is. The patch file is in
rpmbuild/SOURCES directory. I haven't changed the location of anyother file.
Don't know what to do. :(

Thanks
Vaibhav Jain
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