Re: lids, kernelpatch and admintool
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:49:37PM +0100, David Spreen wrote:
> Hi there,
> ok I have a concept for bringing lids into debian:
>
> I'll make a package lids-source-<kernelversion>. This package extracts
> the kernelpatch to /usr/src/kernel-patches/<arch>/<version>/, and the
> tar.gz to build the lidsadm in /usr/src/lidsadm-<kernelversion>.
> The third thing the script extracts is a perlscript (build-lids.pl i.e.).
>
> The user has to start the script, the script aks the user what kernelpatches
> to apply, applies the patches to the sourcedir, then it aks for the kind
> of config (config,menuconfig,xconfig) and starts ist. The user makes his config,
> when he finished, the script builds a kernelpackage and a lidsadmpackage.
> The script asks the user if it should install both.
>
> Please send me some feedback...
We already have a mechanism for kernel patches. apt-cache search
kernel-patch will show you a few. I suggest you base your work on the
existing mechanism ;-)
Jules
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