How to apply a zipped patch?

Question

I am wondering, what is the problem here?

This is the linux patch for 2.6.38. I have renamed it. This patch is gz.Thus, I am using zcat. Here is what I see?

[joshis1@shreyas linux-2.6-lttng]$ zcat patch-2.6.38.2-lttng-0.248.tar.gz  

| patch -p1

can't find file to patch at input line 15
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|patch-2.6.38.2-lttng-0.248/0000755000175000017500000000000011545246117014542 5ustar  compudjcompudjpatch-2.6.38.2-lttng-0.248/omap-move-resync-timer-to-cpufreq-event.patch0000644000175000017500000001631311545246117025310 0ustar  compudjcompudjomap move resync timer to cpufreq event
|
|Remove a periodic timer to save energy.
|
|Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
|---
| arch/arm/mach-omap2/include/mach/trace-clock.h |    2 
| arch/arm/mach-omap2/trace-clock.c              |  110 +++++++++++++++----------
| 2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
|
|Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/arm/mach-omap2/include/mach/trace-clock.h
|===================================================================
|--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/arm/mach-omap2/include/mach/trace-clock.h
|+++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/arm/mach-omap2/include/mach/trace-clock.h
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File to patch: 

Answer 1

duskwuff is correct – you’ve encountered a gzipped tarball of patches. You should extract them all to a temporary folder; you can use your shell to apply each of them – e.g.,

for p in /path/to/extracted/patches/*; do patch -p1 $p; done