Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

[Guido Guenther]

On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 11:37:09AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Guido, you're not going about it the right way.  It's a three-way
> merge.  You take a kernel.org tree, diff it against the architecture
> tree that you're interested in, and then wiggle it into applying to the
> kernel source package that comes with Debian.  It's not all that hard,
> and there's a number of tools to help you (dirdiff, for instance; but
> all I ever use is diff, patch, a text editor, and CVS/BK).
That helps with the merges but doesn't give me a source tree that is as
close to the linux-mips.org tree as possible. If we have a vanilla
upstream source I can still add Herbert's patches on top of that later
if I desire.
 -- Guido