Re: What is the package 'kernel-tree-2.6.6' for?

[Jens Schmalzing <j.s@lmu.de>]

Hi,

Roland Wegmann writes:

> On <http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages> I found the package
> 'kernel- tree-2.6.6'.  Now, I would like to understand the
> additional benefits of this package compared to 'apt-get install
> kernel-source kernel-debian-patch'.

kernel-tree-<version> saves bandwidth by creating the latest revision
of the kernel tree for <version>, no matter what revision of
kernel-source-<version> is installed.  With 2.6.6, this doesn't matter
at the moment since there is only one revision of kernel-source.

Regards, Jens.

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