On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:27:33AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Horms wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:07:06AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > Horms wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > For reference, these are the architectues that I believe > > > > the kernel team handles, and the version of the kernel source > > > > they are using in Sarge: > > > > > > > > Base kernel source version of package in Sarge > > > > 2.4.27: alpha kernel-tree-2.4.27-9 (seems to be out of date in > > > > SVN) > > > > hppa kernel-tree-2.4.27-8 > > > > i386 kernel-tree-2.4.27-8 > > > > ia64 kernel-tree-2.4.27-8 > > > > mips kernel-tree-2.4.27-8 (versioned dependancy needs > > > > to be > > > > changed to > > > > kernel-tree-2.4.27-8) > > > > > > mips/mipsel uses the kernel-source package as build dependency > > > instead of kernel-tree. > > > > Ok, but does it patch to a known version before building. > > That is, if I have kernel-source-2.4.27 2.4.27-8 installed > > and build the mips kernel image packages, and then I have > > kernel-source-2.4.27 2.4.27-9 installed, will I get the same result? > > No, it will build against 2.4.27-9. If building against a known > broken kernel source is preferred for some reason, the build > dependency could be tightened to match only the 2.4.27-8 source.
Some people beleive that it is a requirement of the GPL that you should be able to reproduce your binary package. And as far as I understand for that reason, such a build dependancy is required for debian packages. -- Horms
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