Re: [Xen-devel] xen Makefile being nasty with EXTRAVERSION

[Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>>In fact, at least for the 2.6 tree, isn't creating a self-contained
>>diff as simple as something like:
>> tar xzf linux-2.6.8.1.tar.gz
>> cp -a linux-2.6.8.1 linux-2.6.8.1-xen
>> cd linux-2.6.8.1-xen-sparse
>> for i in `find . -type f | grep -v SCCS` ; do \
>>     cp $i ../linux-2.6.8.1-xen/$i ; done
>
>Well instead of the find actually need something like: 
>
>  tar cvf - --exclude SCCS --exclude mkbuildtree . | \ 
>  tar -C../linux-2.6.8.1-xen -xvf - 
>
>(to deal with non-existant directories in the desintation). 
>
>> cd ..
>> rm -f linux-2.6.8.1-xen/mkbuildtree
>> cp -a xen/include/hypervisor-ifs linux-2.6.8.1-xen/include/asm-xen
>
>And instead of the above can use: 
>
>  cd ../xen/include 
>  tar cvf - --exclude SCCS . | \ 
^^^^ 

This should of course be 

  tar cvf - --exclude SCCS hypervisor-ifs | \ 

:-)