Re: Too many kernels in unstable
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
> Some people have suggested providing a package, say 2.2, with all
> the 2.2.x source patches. (I didn't look at the size, but the patches are
> sometimes small and sometimes 1.5 MB). It is not too inconvenient to
> apply the patches to get to a specific kernel, and the source size is not
> too big. I never use the debian source packages; there are probably
> additional technical issues.
Not a bad idea, it can even be supported at the configure step if it
asks for the kernel version and then applies the appropriate patches
to the original tree. You can then include the last known stable
version from every series and the patches that came out since.
greetings
endre
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