On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:46:45PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:35:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:06:07PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > The good news is that the Debian patch only creates files in debian/, > > > which will make it apply cleanly even to vanilla kernel sources. Is it > > > planned (documented as a committment of the kernel team) that this > > > will stay that way? If yes, one could check out the Debian > > > subdirectory without checking out the "real" kernel, which would > > > greatly help in reducing download volume. > > > > Only the debian directory is found in the svn repo. > > So it is best checked out directly into an unpacked kernel tree?
Yep, it should. There may be some +x chmoding needed maybe, not sure though. > > > Are the .svn directories inside kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-4.diff.gz > > > left there intentionally? > > > No, it is an error. before building, one should always do a svn > > export, to remove any cruft and local inconsistency. I had this > > problem, and do that now, apparently Jens didn't for the 2.6.7-4 > > upload. > > Would dpkg-buildpackage's -i option solve this issue? Or is an export > really needed. Well, the export make sure you remvoe local cruft or stuff you forgot to commit. Friendly, sven Luther
