Applying a debian patch to a "pure" kernel
 

Hi, sorry about posting a second kernel question in a few days. I am trying to apply a debian patch to one of the pure kernels from kernel.org. Specifically the 2.6.13 kernel, i have downloaded the kernel-patch-debian-2.6.13 package under the impression that although it was not the kernel source in the main debian distribution, the package would attempt to patch the kernel anyway. So i used make-kpkg with --added-patches debian and i recieved the message:

No version.Debian file, assuming pristine Linux
Can't patch to nonexistant revision (wait until 2006)

Did a bit of looking around and found that older patches used to have a go anyway and do the best they could. I was hoping someone here know how to force this behaviour in the newer patches or knows of an alternative way to make this happen.

Thanks for your time.

What patch are you wanting to apply? After installing the kernel-patch-debian-2.6.13 package you should have a directory /usr/src/kernel-patches which contains all the patches. You can manually apply any of the patches you want like this:
cd /usr/src/linux
bzip2 -dc ../kernel-patches/path/to/patch/kernel-patch.tar.bz2 | patch -p1

Thanks didnt know the packages came with the bz2 files, kept trying to use the scripts.