On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 18:55, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:34:33PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:41:43AM +0200, dittigas wrote: > > > Is anyone aware of distributions that have a thorough managment of > > > kerenl patches. e.g. Users can easily apply all patches from and with > > > the tools available to the distribution rather than externaly. > > > > > > What do you mean by `externaly'? Surely patch is there, so is diff and > all the other tools. And the distro distributes the patches, doesn't it? >
as in: don't have to get them myself, rahther have packages available. e.g. Like what you've mentione about Debian which prpeares Kernel-patches debs it seems. > > > > I've allready seen Debian has a nice way of distributing some patches > > > and it is very easy to follow and apply. > > > > And it is also easy to build a kernel-image package. Installing it is > > quite smooth (I have had some issues with mkinitrd. I wish it was more > > clear in the docs and/or more standartized). > > > > > What problems are you having? With recent versions of testing/unstable > I believe it is transparent (smooth). There are man pages. > > > > > Is this the same case with > > > Gentoo and Others? > > > > In RedHat and Mandrake you can try to hack the kernel's srpm. Unlike > > deb, rpm has its own patch management. > > > Does that mean that you have 2 separate entities, an srpm and a > patches-rpm? Debian has some difficulties with the current system, in > particular when it comes to security releases. Due to the many > architectures and sub architectures packages, releasing a security fix > for the kernel is not simple. I didn't follow that discussion but from > the little I have read I think that they are aiming at one kernel source > package and as fewer as possible patches debs. I might be wrong. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
