On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Dominik Kubla wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:12:52PM -0600, Russel Ingram wrote: > > Pardon me if I sound like a newbie here. I am fairly new to the Debian > > way, but I am a Linux veteran. I have noticed that there are patches > > available in the debian package tree for the XFS filesystem but there are > > no available kernel-image packages with XFS already built in. Is there a > > specific reason for this or is it just because no one has stepped forward > > to offer such a package? > > There are _no_ kernel images for patched kernels as far as i can tell. > > > If the latter is true I would be willing to be a maintainer for a > > kernel-*-xfs package set if no one else is working on it. I haven't been > > able to find any references specific to making kernel packages in the > > packaging manual or the policies so I'm also curious about whether or not > > official debian kernel packages are created with the make-kpkg command or > > if it has to be done with dpkg-deb tool. I've used the make-kpkg command > > to create kernel packages, but they always come out with a custom-1.00 > > label on them and I haven't figured out how to get around that. > > Please wait before rolling out a kernel-*-xfs package. Things are in flux > right now due to XFS and EXT2FS/EXT3FS moving to a common api for extended > attributes and access control lists. Andreas Grünbacher warned on the > acl-devel list that he will have to break binary compatibility for the EXT2FS > patches. This is one of the reasons that the EXT2FS-releated EA/ACL stuff > has not been made available by me. The ITP still stands, but i will not > roll out packages i know will break later on. > Okie dokie. Does anyone have an answer for me on how to get around the custom-1.00 tag on my packages?
-- Russel H. Ingram Unix Systems Administrator Institute for Scientific Computation University of Wyoming/Math Dept. Phone: (307)766-6546 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
