NAME
ksplice-apply - Apply an on-disk Ksplice update to the running kernel
SYNOPSIS
ksplice-apply [OPTIONS] {UPDATE_TARBALL | UPDATE_TREE}
DESCRIPTION
ksplice-apply takes as input a Ksplice update, as generated by
ksplice-create(8), and it applies the update to the running binary
kernel. The update may be supplied in the form of a tarball or an
unpacked tree.
The update is required to have been generated for the running kernel’s
version.
OPTIONS
--debug Applies the update with debugging output enabled. Recommended
only for debugging.
--debugfile=filename
Sets the location where debugging output should be saved.
Implies --debug.
--partial
Applies the update only to those modules which are loaded. Any
modules patched by the update that are not loaded are ignored
(without this option, Ksplice aborts if any modules patched by
the update are not loaded).
--raw-errors
Print only raw error information designed to be machine-
readable on standard error (standard output is still intended
to be human-readable). If ksplice-apply fails due to an error
from the Ksplice kernel modules, the first line on standard
error will be a Ksplice abort code (see the Ksplice source code
for documentation on these codes). Further lines will vary
depending on the abort code. If ksplice-apply fails for any
other reason, it will output the line "OTHER\n", followed by a
human-readable failure message, to standard error.
SEE ALSO
ksplice-create(8), ksplice-view(8), ksplice-undo(8)
BUGS
Please report bugs to <devel@ksplice.com>.
AUTHORS
Jeff Arnold, Anders Kaseorg, and Tim Abbott
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Ksplice, Inc.
This is free software and documentation. You can redistribute and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.