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.