Re: Reducing the number of kernels
* Francesco P. Lovergine (frankie@debian.org) [040730 09:55]:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:21:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > I think it would be nice to really come down to one single kernel
> > version.
> Hopefully, you mean one version per arch and flavor (2.2, 2.4, 2.6)
> whenever possible.
I mean: One "real" kernel source package per flavor, with arch patches
depending on them. So that for a security update, mostly only the
source package needs to be adopted.
> If we would have 3 up-to-date sources per arch
> it would be nice. I find not necessary having always corresponding
> binaries of course. For instance, 2.2 binaries on i386 is probably
> superfluous, but having the sources for specific applications
> (e.g. embedded) is a good thing anyway. And it seems reasonable
> for secteam also probably.
As long as we have 2.2 kernel sources, I don't care if one or of all
archs uses them.
Cheers,
Andi
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