On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:47:39PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:34:57 +0200 > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:25:58PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > > > Now if d-i needs special work of mine to sync with kernel updates, I'd > > > better be taught about it. > > > > Yes, you need to checkout d-i, and go into > > debian-installer/packages/kernel/linux-kernel-di-hppa and make an upload > > of this with the 2.4.27 kernels. > > > > The rest of the stuff includes some adaptation in 3 different places. > > build/config is in debian-installer/installer/build/config/hppa.cfg or > > somewhere in the hppa subdir of config. The base-installer is > > debian-installer/packages/base-installer/debian/postinst, and rootskel i > > am less familiar with but it is in debian-installer/packages/rootskel. > > > > What this means is probably that nobody has been doing hppa d-i work in > > ages. > > Ok this tends to make things a bit clearer. I wasn't aware that there were > such tasks to do with d-i, since I'm absolutely clueless about d-i, and > not that interested in it either. I'll look at the files you suggested and > see what can be done.
If you don't really want to do it yourself, go to #debian-devel on irc.freenode.org, and get someone to help you do it or something such. Friendly, Sven Luther
