Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-04-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, A few hours ago, a new version of kernel-package was uploaded to Experimental. This is a major change, the new kernel-package is far more nimble, more flexible, and supports people who make a minor change to a kernel, or who update the kernel sources (via git or otherwise), and wa

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-20 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:56:30PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:14:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the > >> tool to create user pa

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Feb 18 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:14:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the >> tool to create user packaged kernel images and headers; which will >> make the make-kpkg script far l

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-18 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:14:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the > tool to create user packaged kernel images and headers; which will > make the make-kpkg script far less error prone, and far more > deterministic. >

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi Mano, > This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the > tool to create user packaged kernel images and headers; which will > make the make-kpkg script far less error prone, and far more > deterministic. kernel-package works well for me since years now, thanks for for

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Feb 09 2009, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] >>c. his means there will be no need for /etc/kernel-img.conf file any >> more. > > [...] > > Isn't this file also read in the postinst of the "official" kernels? > In FAI we had several issues when kernel-img.conf was missing or > h

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-09 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Montag, 9. Februar 2009, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > >c. his means there will be no need for /etc/kernel-img.conf file any > > more. > > [...] > > Isn't this file also read in the postinst of the "official" kernels? In FAI we > had several issues when kernel-img.conf was

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-09 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] >c. his means there will be no need for /etc/kernel-img.conf file any > more. [...] Isn't this file also read in the postinst of the "official" kernels? In FAI we had several issues when kernel-img.conf was missing or hadn't had the proper values in there. Best, Michael pgp2Ve

Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the tool to create user packaged kernel images and headers; which will make the make-kpkg script far less error prone, and far more deterministic. a. Every invocation of kernel-package will remove ./debian directory,