Re: Devices and patches

2000-04-07 Thread David Fernandez Vaamonde
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Will Lowe wrote: > What program are you talking about? The program is "TracePackage". Is a couple of programs very useful for debugging or tracing events in a computer ( His autor says about it: " is a mix with ps, strace, ltrace...etc..."). This program need a Trace suppor

Re: Devices and patches

2000-04-06 Thread tony mancill
Hi David, On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, David Fernandez Vaamonde wrote: > The program needs a patch to be applied to the kernel... How can you mark > this need in the package ? Should it be automatized? I went though this same thing with "wanipe" package. If the patch is stable, but unlikely to be part

Re: Devices and patches

2000-04-06 Thread Will Lowe
What program are you talking about? > The program needs a patch to be applied to the kernel... How can you mark > this need in the package ? Should it be automatized? It's a patch not included with the standard kernel source? I don't know if there's an official policy on what to do with these;

Devices and patches

2000-04-06 Thread David Fernandez Vaamonde
Hi, First, sorry for my poor english. I have a couple of questions about "debianize" a program: The program needs a patch to be applied to the kernel... How can you mark this need in the package ? Should it be automatized? My second question: This program needs to create a device to run... Wh