Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-22 Thread Cord Beermann
Hallo! Du (Henrique de Moraes Holschuh) hast geschrieben: >> My problem is the following, I do not know why it is necessary to >> modify the kernelsource from upstream so much, that patches etc. do not > >Because the linux vanilla kernel is not always the best choice. Our kernel >maintainer reads

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi David! You wrote: > well, perhaps herbert xu will listen to you, he doesn't listen to me. > My problem is the following, I do not know why it is necessary to > modify the kernelsource from upstream so much, that patches etc. do not > apply to it. If you want to, you can always use the vanilla

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Bastian Blank wrote: >... > > You will notice that most other distros do the same. RedHat and SuSE > > distribute _heavily_ patched kernels, for example. Debian's is actually > > quite light as far as patches go. > > but they also include vanilla kernelsources You don't want

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:45:17AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > He notes his changes in README.Debian, and most kernel-patch packages will > > work just fine against Xu's patched sources. Those that don't are usually > > easy enough to f

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:45:17AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, David Spreen wrote: > > the _linux_ source (the package description told me that he packaged > > _linux_ sources and not xu-sources) that the patch-package people still can > > apply their patches. >

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, David Spreen wrote: > well, perhaps herbert xu will listen to you, he doesn't listen to me. He listened to you just fine, I bet. He did not *agree* with you. > My problem is the following, I do not know why it is necessary to > modify the kernelsource from upstream so much, t

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:29:41AM +0200, David Spreen écrivait: > well, perhaps herbert xu will listen to you, he doesn't listen to me. That's not really a way to handle problems. > My problem is the following, I do not know why it is necessary to > modify the kernelsource from upstream so much,

Re: kernel-sources

2001-07-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
has to modify his patches to be > compatible with the GNU/herbert kernel, right? please talk to him, because > he doesn't listen to me. He is packaging the _Debian GNU/Linux_ kernel sources (and does a good job of it). These are not necessarily the same as the official Linux kernel sourc

kernel-sources

2001-07-20 Thread David Spreen
Hey there, well, perhaps herbert xu will listen to you, he doesn't listen to me. My problem is the following, I do not know why it is necessary to modify the kernelsource from upstream so much, that patches etc. do not apply to it. In my oppinion, herbert has to keep it compatible with the _linux_