Re: ITP: reiserfs (includes dh_installkernelpatch)
(I'n not on Debian-boot, so please cc: me if you don't post to devel also)
Jeremy Koch has created a set of Potato install disks meant to allow a
ReiserFS installation of Debian. I noticed this from freshmeat, but
haven't played with it yet.
Looking at the webpage
http://home.psouth.net/~jjk/projects/reiser-debian/
I see he's packaged the tools, etc. unofficially.
Making sure the 'official packages' would allow use of his install
disks would probably be useful, unless the debian-boot floppy team have
something better planned. Or vice versa, if Jeremy plans to modify his
boot-floppies to use the 'official' packages.
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Masato Taruishi wrote:
> I'm packaging reiserfs, which is a linux file system using a plug-in
> based object oriented variant on classical balanced tree algorithms.
>
> To build this package, I've written a new debhelper program
> `dh_installkernelpatch' to install kernel patches for the kernel-package's
> manner easily. Currently, though I'm using my local version of kernel-pacakge
> which includes `dh_installkernelpatch', I guess this program should be merged
> into debhelper itself. I tested the program with some test kernel-patch
> packages such as kernel-patch-usb-backport, kernel-patch-ipvs,
> kernel-patch-pc9800... and it seems to work well.
>
> twenty% dpkg -I ../reiserfs_3.5.26-6_i386.deb
> new debian package, version 2.0.
> size 76324 bytes: control archive= 987 bytes.
> 388 bytes, 13 lines control
> 637 bytes, 10 lines md5sums
> 257 bytes, 8 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
> 194 bytes, 6 lines * prerm #!/bin/sh
> Package: reiserfs
> Version: 3.5.26-6
> Section: admin
> Priority: optional
> Architecture: i386
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2)
> Installed-Size: 172
> Maintainer: Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org>
> Description: Admin tools of ReiserFS
> Reiserfs is a file system using a plug-in based object oriented variant
> on classical balanced tree algorithms.
> .
> This package contains tools to maintenance ReiserFS.
>
> twenty% dpkg -I ../kernel-patch-reiserfs-2.2.17_3.5.26-6_all.deb
> new debian package, version 2.0.
> size 288892 bytes: control archive= 855 bytes.
> 419 bytes, 13 lines control
> 458 bytes, 5 lines md5sums
> 337 bytes, 8 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
> 234 bytes, 6 lines * prerm #!/bin/sh
> Package: kernel-patch-reiserfs-2.2.17
> Version: 3.5.26-6
> Section: devel
> Priority: optional
> Architecture: all
> Installed-Size: 303
> Maintainer: Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org>
> Description: Kernel patch of ReiserFS (linux v2.2.17)
> Reiserfs is a file system using a plug-in based object oriented variant
> on classical balanced tree algorithms.
> .
> This package contains a ReiserFS patch to linux v2.2.17.
> Source: reiserfs
>
> Licence:
>
> ReiserFS is hereby licensed under the GNU General
> Public License version 2. Please see the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
> which should have accompanied this software distribution for
> details of that license.
>
> Since that license (particularly 2.b) is necessarily vague in certain
> areas due to its generality, the following interpretations shall govern.
> Some may consider these terms to be a supplemental license to the GPL.
> You may include ReiserFS in a Linux kernel which you may then include
> with anything, and you may even include it with a Linux kernel with
> non-GPL'd kernel modules. You may include it in any kernel which is
> wholly GPL'd including its kernel modules which you may then include
> with anything. If you wish to use it for a kernel which you sell usage
> or copying licenses for, which is not listed above, then you must obtain
> an additional license. If you wish to integrate it with any other
> software system which is not GPL'd, without integrating it into an
> operating system kernel, then you must obtain an additional license.
> This is an interpretation of what is and is not part of the software
> program falling under the GPL section 2.b., and is intended as a
> specification of (with a slight supplement to), not an exception to, the
> GPL as applied to this particular piece of software.
>
> Further licensing options are available for commercial and/or other
> interests directly from Hans Reiser: reiser@idiom.com. If you
> interpret the GPL as not allowing those additional licensing options,
> you read it wrongly, when carefully read you can see that those
> restrictions on additional terms do not apply to the owner of the
> copyright, and my interpretation of this shall govern for this license.
>
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