On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:45:13PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: >> Getting your head around the build system is at least as much fun. > > It still is? I must admit, this is what made me flee any d-i work in the > first place (having built Mac installers on a Quadra ten years ago).
The kernel build system is one kind of opaque. The d-i system is a completely different kind of opaque. Neither is terribly straightforward. > Having a clear mapping from Geert's patches to Debian patches would be > helpful (mostly, they should be 1:1 but there will be corner cases). So far the patches are identical, although I've added a few from later kernels (not in Geert's quilt series for that version). > Downloading everything from Geert is what I'd like to streamline - I'll > have to juggle a pristine Linus tree with Geert's queue, a development > tree for my kernel hacks (all of them git), one or two known good 2.6 > snapshots (also git) plus a Debian unstable and experimental one. It's > getting a bit much ... Yikes. > I was planning to play with testing-m68k on that box as well. Not gonna fit. I've been thinking about that myself. Peace, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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