Re: NMU: kernel

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:

> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:26:08PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
>> The various source packages are kept in different locations, and only
>> come together in the archive itself.  A central repository would be
>> nice - as long as it does not bear the restriction of allowing only
>> one source package.
>
> What's the problem with a single source package again?  Even if there
> is a single source package we can apply "dangerous" patches
> conditionally for selected architectures.  Although I'd like to avoid
> that if remotely possible.

There is absolutely no point in having 10 archs recompile the kernels
just because the 11th arch needs a typo fix.

Building a set of kernels takes between 1h to 2 days depending on the
arch.

MfG
        Goswin