Re: Best practices for kernel patches?
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:50:55AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
>
> Matt> I have started work on packaging a kernel patch, and I've
> Matt> run into an issue that I'm sure that others have dealt with
> Matt> already.
>
> Matt> Should kernel-patch packages contain diffs against the
> Matt> official kernel, or against the patched Debian sources?
>
> Could the differences to the Debian kernel also be distributed as
> kernel patch packages?
>
> That way, it would be easy to specify in your patch that it requires
> the official Debian patch first.
>
> Not sure if it would work, just an idea.
In fact, I suggested that very idea a few lines later in that same message:
> Matt> - Ship a kernel-patch package for the Debian diff, so that it can be
> Matt> automatically reversed. This would still require a detection mechanism as
> Matt> above, but patch packages would only have to ship one version.
I think that I like this idea best so far. This way, the official kernel
packages (and users who want the patch) can just pull in
kernel-patch-debian. If desired, the kernel-source packages could depend on
kernel-patch-debian and cause it to be patched in by default when make-kpkg
is used.
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- mdz
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