Re: [Xen-devel] applying mailing list patches

[George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>]

...although importing them to mercurial patch queues is probably better:
 http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension

 -George

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Patches are usually against xen-unstable.hg -- the development branch which
> will eventually become Xen 4.1.0. You can apply them with 'patch -p1' at the
> root of xen-unstable.hg.
>
>  -- Keir
>
> On 27/11/2010 06:56, "domiel forty-two" <domiel42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> What's the procedure for applying the patches provided here.
>>
>> I've tried patching the 4.0-testing repository with Qing He's nested vmx 
>> patch
>> series from september without any success. I've also had similar problems 
>> with
>> applying a set of patches that Eddie Dong sent me in a private email.
>>
>> I'm assuming that the patches need to be applied against the 4.0.1 release
>> tag.
>>
>> I also notice that the patches seem to originate from 'hg export' however 
>> they
>> only include one '-r' argument to diff which doesn't seem correct - certainly
>> hg import --exact returns a "abort: not a Mercurial patch" error.
>>
>> I'm also assuming that the order the patches need to be applied are the order
>> in which they are tagged by name in the series, ie. patch 01/16, 02/16, etc.
>> is this a flawed assumption?
>>
>> Can anyone please tell me where I'm going wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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