Re: status of d-i 2.4.27/2.6.8 kernel transition
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:34:57 +0200
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:25:58PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> > Now if d-i needs special work of mine to sync with kernel updates, I'd
> > better be taught about it.
>
> Yes, you need to checkout d-i, and go into
> debian-installer/packages/kernel/linux-kernel-di-hppa and make an upload
> of this with the 2.4.27 kernels.
>
> The rest of the stuff includes some adaptation in 3 different places.
> build/config is in debian-installer/installer/build/config/hppa.cfg or
> somewhere in the hppa subdir of config. The base-installer is
> debian-installer/packages/base-installer/debian/postinst, and rootskel i
> am less familiar with but it is in debian-installer/packages/rootskel.
>
> What this means is probably that nobody has been doing hppa d-i work in
> ages.
Ok this tends to make things a bit clearer. I wasn't aware that there were
such tasks to do with d-i, since I'm absolutely clueless about d-i, and
not that interested in it either. I'll look at the files you suggested and
see what can be done.
HTH,
Thibaut VARENE
The PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://www.pateam.org/
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