Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:25:42PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Matt wrote:
> > The ideal solution would be to be able to share tarballs between source
> > packages. Then, all of the kernel-image packages could be built as if
> > they had a complete kernel source tree as their source package (which
> > simplifies things a lot), and yet we would only need one such tarball in
> > the archive. Of course, I have little idea how much work this would be
> > to implement, except that it would touch a lot of different tools.
>
> The way I understand it was intended to work would be to have one single
> kernel-source-X-Y-Z package somewhat like what we have today, and having
> the various kernel-image-whatever build-depend on this kernel-source and
> any necessary kernel-patch packages.
>
> If this understanding is correct, I admit I don't see why the practice has
> diverged from this idea.
The part you seem to have missed is the distinction between a source package
and a binary package in what I wrote above.
I do not think this is a practical idea to work toward at this time,
however.
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- mdz
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