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?
> > 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.
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Shaul Karl, shaul @ actcom . net . il
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