Bug#334357: unneeded hunks for GENERIC in debian/patches

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Robert Millan a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:58:58AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>
> > Robert Millan a ?crit :
> >
> > > Package: kfreebsd-5
> > > Severity: minor
> > >
> > > The following patches contain hunks for sys/i386/conf/GENERIC which aren't
> > > really used (since the config file is now in config/*).  Perhaps they 
> > > should
> > > be removed:
> >
> > This GENERIC configuration file is still provided in 
> > kfreebsd-source-5.4, so I think it is a good idea to provide it.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
>
> I'm not sure.  I think it's confusing to provide complete files in config/, but
> still provide the patches.  That can lead to inconsistencies easily.
>
> How do Linux packages do this?
The Linux packages make some modifications on the config files, just as 
we do. However, I have looked at the patch, and it is not necessary to 
use it to get a working FreeBSD kernel. I'll remove it in the next upload.

Aurelien

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