backporting_tool

A small, efficient Python-based solution for backporting changes from the recently updated C file to the old one. Wraps diff and patch command line utilities for backporting changes.

Requirements

• Ubuntu 20.04 or higher
• Python 3.8 or higher
• Command line utility: diff 3.7 or higher
• Command line utility: patch 2.7.6 or higher

it only uses the python standard library so the requirements.txt file is empty.

Installation

• Make sure diff command line utility is on latest version:

sudo apt install diffutils

• Make sure patch command line utility is on latest version:

sudo apt install patch

• Clone current github repo:

git clone https://github.com/dexters1/backporting_tool.git

• Make sure necessary permissions are given to the script inside github repo:

chmod +x backporting_tool.py

• Run the script with proper arguments, example:

./backporting_tool.py -b "/tmp/examples/e27c4470/before/kernel-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8w2bb4pco"
-a "/tmp/examples/e27c4470/after/kernel-4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9dxsabows"
-t "/tmp/examples/e27c4470/target/sch_api.cd10e7n9d"