fedora-ksplice - Collection of Shell Scripts for Using Ksplice

General Information:

    fedora-ksplice is a collection of shell scripts to use ksplice
    in a Fedora environment.

    The scripts allow to prepare a kernel for use it with ksplice.

    fedora-ksplice-prepare will download the source rpm of the 
    current installed kernel. After this the kernel sources 
    will be created in the rpm build directory. Additional the
    ksplice sub directory with the System.map file will be created.

    fedora-ksplice-create will apply a patch given as an argument
    to the kernel sources prepared by fedora-ksplice-prepare.

License Information:

    Distribution of this software is under the GPL version 3 or
    later as listed in the file COPYING.

Prerequisites:

    The following packages are require to use this package:

    	ksplice	  	       
	yumdownloader	       to download source rpms
	rpm		       to install source rpms
	rpmbuild	       to prepare source rpms

Usage:

   Before you can apply a kernel patch with ksplice you need
   the current sources of the installed kernel. To get this
   sources, you should apply the following command:

	fedora-ksplice-prepare

   This command will download the source rpm of the currently
   installed kernel and prepare the source in the rpm build 
   directory of the system.

   The kernel source rpm will put in the directory

       ~/.fedora-ksplice-prepare

   The content of this directory can be cleared by 

   	fedora-ksplice-prepare --clean

   After you have got the prepared kernel sources you
   can apply the patch witch

       fedora-ksplice-create <patch>

   The command create a archive with the name

       ksplice-<buildid>.tar.gz

   <buildid> is a string of random 8 charachtes, if
   you not specified a build id with the --id switch.

   Be aware, that this command needs a long time to 
   complete. You may done your shopping during this 

   After you have create the patch succesfully, you
   can apply the patch with

       ksplice-apply ksplice-<buildid>.tar.gz

   with 

   	ksplice-view

   you can get a list of patches applied by ksplice.

   For undoing a applied patch you can type

       ksplice-undo <buildid>

Contact Information:

    Maintainer: Jochen Schmitt <Jochen@herr-schmitt.de>

Overview of the distribution:

    src/			source
    man/			man pages

		