Hi all, I'm going to compile a 2.6.6 Kernel for my iBook2.2. I read somewhere that this Kernel version doesn't need the extra xfree package from Michel Dänzer (thank's a lot for all the work you have done, Michel).
But now I would like what the meta packages 'kernel-tree-x.y.z' exactly do. I read the description one can find on <http://packages.debian.org/ testing/devel/kernel-tree-2.6.6>, see below. --- This meta package is used as a ???build-time dependency of prepackaged??? Debian kernel-image packages. Its dependencies are structured so that a complete kernel tree with Debian patches applied will be available after this package is installed. For those intending to use this package as a build-time dependency, ?? ?this package provides a list of virtual packages??? that guarantees the availability of a particular Debian revision of the kernel tree. The kernel-image-2.6.6-i386 package is an example of this. --- What does this really mean? Does the package kernel-tree-x.y.z simply apt-get the kernel-patches and the kernel-source like 'apt-get install kernel-patches kernel-source'? Or is there additional benefit? BTW: Do I have to patch the kernel-patches by hand or has 'debian' already done this for me, so that a can start with 'make menuconfig'? Thanks in advance for helping me Roland Wegmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
