Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-23 Thread Horms
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:55:30PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.22.1031 +0100]: > > Ok, I want to have the latest kernel source installed, > > so I install kernel-tree. Thats a reason. > > Please read the thread before you post. kernel-tree package

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.22.1031 +0100]: >> Ok, I want to have the latest kernel source installed, >> so I install kernel-tree. Thats a reason. > > Please read the thread before you post. kernel-tree packages do not > guarantee th

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:11:24PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.11.0823 +0100]: >> > > > Sounds good to me, though I am slightly dubious about the last >> > > > paragraph. >> > > >> > > Well, can you think of

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.22.1031 +0100]: > Ok, I want to have the latest kernel source installed, > so I install kernel-tree. Thats a reason. Please read the thread before you post. kernel-tree packages do not guarantee the latest source to be installed because their dependen

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-22 Thread Horms
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:11:24PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.11.0823 +0100]: > > > > Sounds good to me, though I am slightly dubious about the last > > > > paragraph. > > > > > > Well, can you think of a use outside of the offfical archive? > >

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.11.0823 +0100]: > > > Sounds good to me, though I am slightly dubious about the last > > > paragraph. > > > > Well, can you think of a use outside of the offfical archive? > > I am just dubious that it needs to be mentioned > as I could contrive a u

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-10 Thread Horms
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:15:11AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.10.0249 +0100]: > > >The package serves no purpose outside of the Debian build and > > >archive infrastructure. > > > > Sounds good to me, though I am slightly dubious about th

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.10.0235 +0100]: > somewhere public, just never have). I just posted it in our wiki: > > http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKernelTree Much appreciated! > http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKernel > http://wiki.debian.net/?Kernel > > Anyone know why

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.10.0249 +0100]: > >The package serves no purpose outside of the Debian build and > >archive infrastructure. > > Sounds good to me, though I am slightly dubious about the last > paragraph. Well, can you think of a use outside of the offfical

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-09 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 02:35 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Thanks for the doc, Dann. > > However, I think you will still agree with me that the control > description for kernel-tree packages is largely false and > misguiding. I propose the following instead: > > Description: Linux kernel sourc

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-09 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 02:15 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.10.0139 +0100]: > > Here's a snippet of a doc I wrote for work some time ago - hopefully > > others will jump in if there are inaccuracies. > > Ah, okay. So kernel-tree is really all b

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-09 Thread Horms
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:35:52AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Thanks for the doc, Dann. > > However, I think you will still agree with me that the control > description for kernel-tree packages is largely false and > misguiding. I propose the following instead: > > Description: Linux kerne

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-09 Thread martin f krafft
Thanks for the doc, Dann. However, I think you will still agree with me that the control description for kernel-tree packages is largely false and misguiding. I propose the following instead: Description: Linux kernel source tree for building Debian kernel images This meta package is used as

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.10.0139 +0100]: > Here's a snippet of a doc I wrote for work some time ago - hopefully > others will jump in if there are inaccuracies. Ah, okay. So kernel-tree is really all behind the lines and absolutely irrelevant to a non-developer, right?

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-09 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:24 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I am wondering what the purpose of the kernel-tree packages is. Here's a snippet of a doc I wrote for work some time ago - hopefully others will jump in if there are inaccuracies. kernel-tree & kernel-patch-debian ---

Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-09 Thread martin f krafft
"It also contains the upstream changelog file." right: % dpkg -L kernel-tree-2.6.10 | grep -i changelog /usr/share/doc/kernel-tree-2.6.10/changelog.Debian.gz -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debi

purpose of kernel-tree packages

2005-02-09 Thread martin f krafft
I am wondering what the purpose of the kernel-tree packages is. First of all, I note the dependency line: Package: kernel-tree-2.6.10 Version: 2.6.10-4 Depends: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.10 (= 2.6.10-4), kernel-source-2.6.10 (= 2.6.10-1) | kernel-source-2.6.10 (= 2.6.10-2) | kernel-