Re: Where is the kernel?
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 20:29, Ivan Marin <ispmarin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/5 John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>:
>> Ivan Marin writes:
>>> The main problem, I suppose, is to get the debian kernel patches. Is
>>> there a easy way to do a diff between the changes in the kernel.org
>>> sources and the debian patched sources?
>>
>> A Debian source package consists essentially of the pristine upstream
>> source plus a diff containing the Debian changes. But why do you need
>> them?
>> --
>
> I've been always curious about what are the changes that the Debian
> kernel team does to the pristine kernel, if any, and the differences
> between the pristine and the Debian .config. I will look at the
> linux-source package.
You can look at the diff with zless <kernel package>.diff.gz . The
debian/changelog file should contain even some references for the
patch applied and why.
Regards,
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