On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:05:25AM +0100, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > debianized != hot > > Indeed.... > I think you are missing the point here.
Yes you're right. After this thread I got to know a little more about kernel-source and kernel-patch. I didn't know about kernel-patch-benh which apparently does everything I need my kernel to do. This makes it hot, for me at least. > If you are going to upload your packages, however, they will need to > include source. In order to avoid replicating nearly the whole kernel > source tree in the archives, you should depend on the generic > kernel-source package and the various patch packages for building. > For more information, RTFS of a few kernel-image packages, there are > various ways of doing this. Could you point me to some info? I am trying to learn kernel-package and friends. E.g.: /usr/share/doc/kernel-patch-benh/ is quite empty... > As far as packages based on the BenH tree alone are concerned, I > refrained from doing them because there already are powerpc kernel > packages, and the differences could be expected to be relatively > small. I chose to use both the XFS and the BenH patch instead, > because this really adds functionality. Wise. Thanks Ricardo
