Re: kernel-image 2.4 i386 update
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:20:41PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here are a few updates regarding kernel-image 2.4 i386
>
> * This does not effect the kernel-source package at all.
>
> * kernel-image-2.4.26-i386 2.4.26-6 is in incoming
> - After some discussion on this list and a failed upload I have
> rebuilt 2.4.26-6 and uploaded it.
> - The packages that were also provided
> by the 2.4.27 have been removed. There were no other changes
> from the previous failed upload. For a full list of changes please
> see the changelog.
> - All changes are in SVN
> - For reference the packages can also be found at
> http://debian.vergenet.net/pending/ for now.
>
> * kernel-latest-2.4-i386
> - This is a NEW package that provides the meta packages that were
> previously provided by kernel-image-2.4.26-i386 and are currently
> provided by kernel-image-2.4.27-i386. The plan is for them to be
> removed from kernel-image-2.4.27-i386 and only provided by this
> new meta package. This package will need to be updated if
> a flavour is added or removed or when a kernel-image for
> a new upstream is uploaded. I have made this package achitecture
> specific as it is primarily concerened with flavours which
> are clearly architecture specific.
> - This is now in SVN under trunk/kernel-2.4/i386
> - For reference packages can be found in
> http://debian.vergenet.net/pending/
> - These have _not_ been uploaded to d.o
>
> I would like to upload kernel-latest-2.4-i386 to d.o shortly. If there
> are any objections now would be a most excellent time to make them.
>
> For reference, the following parties were involved in the discussion
> of the creation of kernel-latest-2.4-i386: Joshua Kwan, Dann Frazier,
> Sven Luther and myself.
BTW, the idea i had was to have one source package for all arches for those,
but maybe this is more work.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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