On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:04:56PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > Woop! YAY! > How did you package it? As a kernel-package source patch? module? I did it brute force, no such prettiness, though integration with kernel-package would be very nice to have, and I'm very interested in ideas along that front. If the brute force approach is unacceptable, I'm also willing to put some more time in, but I think this is a more than reasonable initial import. The only trick to packaging it was that there were no noninteractive configuration scripts. I devised one (also by brute force) by changing readln() in scripts/Configure to simply always return what it saw in the existing .config and creating a new configuration target to call the modified version of the script. Outside of this (and the below) deb-make and a couple of extra lines in debian/rules seemed to do just fine. I suppose there are a couple of hassles with it that could use some going-over, namely: 1) How to handle a "modified" GPL with exceptions is slightly unclear to me. Either I need to shut lintian up with an override or separate the exception(s) from the GPL and deal with it that way. 2) The kernel must be statically linked to build/operate at all. This probably calls for an override. 3) Last, but not least, someone responded to me privately and noted that the package name suggested to him something called "Universal Modelling Language". In the interest of complete clarity, perhaps it's best to rename the package to "user-mode-linux" and spell it out in full. Cheers, Bill -- *pdu-* write irc in Erlang and deploy it on ATM switches --
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