Begin3 Title: getpatch Version: 2.21 Entered-date: 24APR2004 Description: A bash shell script that will determine your present kernel source version, and get any patches needed to bring it up to date. Get patches needed to bring present kernel source up to date. # getpatch -p Get patches starting with kernel i specify, this example would assume you have kernel 2.6.5, and get patches 2.6.6 etc. if they exist. # getpatch -sp 2.6.5 Get the complete latest stable kernel source. # getpatch -k Get the complete kernel source i specify. # getpatch -sk 2.6.5 Show help menu. # getpatch Getpatch requires 'wget' and 'bzip2'. It also requires 'finger' for the -k, -p, or -sk options. If you lose the connection while your downloading, wget will automatically pick up where it left-off. # getpatch -p Lost connection... # getpatch -p Keywords: Kernel Patch Retrieve, wget, finger, bzip2... Author: robotti@godmail.com (Kent Robotti) Maintained-by: Primary-site: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/kernel getpatch-2.21.tar.gz 3K Alternate-site: Platforms: Linux Copying-policy: GPL End