On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 12:50 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Otavio is happy for us to start building kernel udebs from linux-2.6,
Done, in experimental.
> with the following provisos:
>
> 1. Installer team members (initially Otavio, Joey and Colin) will need
> commit access, to update the module selections for udebs.
Done.
> 2. The automatic inclusion of module dependencies sometimes results in a
> module being selected for multiple packages. kernel-wedge does not
> attempt to resolve this, and treats it as a fatal error. It should be
> turned into a warning when building linux-2.6 for experimental.
In progress.
> 3. The kernel team proposed to specify the modules to be included in
> each udeb using wildcards. He is wary about this because currently the
> explicit lists of modules provide a useful check that modules have not
> been unexpectedly removed. (This sometimes happens due to introduction
> of new kconfig variables without sane defaults.) We need to check for
> this in some way. Also, to allow for very memory-constrained systems we
> will still need to specify explicit lists for some packages and
> flavours. Wildcards should then not match modules that were explicitly
> listed in another package. Finally, it may be useful to create a
> misc-modules udeb that would include all modules not explicitly included
> anywhere else or explicitly excluded.
Still to be done.
> 4. kernel-wedge must remain a separate package, as it is also used for
> the FreeBSD kernel.
It still is.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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