Re: kernel-source

[Robert van der Meulen <rvdm@cistron.nl>]

Hi,

Quoting Matthias Berse (matthias.berse@ruhr-uni-bochum.de):
> No, I mean a way to go from let's say kernel-source-2.4.3 to
> kernel-source-2.4.4 without the need to download the whole big .deb,
> but a patch similar to those patches found on kernel.org, but as a
> debian package which the patches the installed kernel-source-2.4.3 and
> provides kernel-source-2.4.4. You may ask why I don't take the patches
> from kernel.org and apply them. Well won't work (at least for debian
> kernel-source-2.4.3 I wasn't able to patch to 2.4.4...)
I'm maintaining www.bzimage.org, which contains kernel patches similar to
what you describe (not debian-specific though). 
IMHO .debs for patches like that are only useful for unstable, not for
stable - and there would be quite a lot of them too..Too much package bloat
if you ask me.

Greets,
	Robert

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