Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:27, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > The scripts handle ordering by testing each dependency, and if it is
> > not already applied, invoking the corresponding apply script. In
> > this way, all dependencies should be applied in proper order.
> > Rollback could presumably be implemented by unapplying all patches
> > if any patch fails (dh-kpatches should now implement correct
> > ordering for unapplication as well).
>
> Well, if I have asked for 5 patches to be applied (preempt,
> lowlatency, skas, device-mapper, lsm2, and debianlogo, in a recent
> invocation), the lsm2 script indeed failed -- but only after preempt,
> lowlatency, skas, and device-mapper patches were applied (I did not
> have acl kernel-patch on the machine). It would have been nice to
> know about that before all the patches were applied.
I think that's a bug. The next upload of the kernel-patch-2.4-lsm package
will depend on the ACL patch package.
Also I will split the package and put the patch for the old SE Linux in a
separate package on my web site.
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