On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:25:42PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > Matt wrote: > > The ideal solution would be to be able to share tarballs between source > > packages. Then, all of the kernel-image packages could be built as if > > they had a complete kernel source tree as their source package (which > > simplifies things a lot), and yet we would only need one such tarball in > > the archive. Of course, I have little idea how much work this would be > > to implement, except that it would touch a lot of different tools. > > The way I understand it was intended to work would be to have one single > kernel-source-X-Y-Z package somewhat like what we have today, and having > the various kernel-image-whatever build-depend on this kernel-source and > any necessary kernel-patch packages. > > If this understanding is correct, I admit I don't see why the practice has > diverged from this idea.
The part you seem to have missed is the distinction between a source package and a binary package in what I wrote above. I do not think this is a practical idea to work toward at this time, however. -- - mdz
