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Re: [PROPOSAL] Re: Which 2.4 kernel-source for sarge?



On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:52:03PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> There will be a new d-i release before long anyway, which is also why we need
> to take this decision, and make both debian-release and debian-boot
> participate in it.
> 
> > This argument goes away once 2.4.27 kernels are made available on these
> > architectures (m68k, arm, sparc: I'm looking at you).  powerpc has neither
> > 2.4.26 nor 2.4.27.
> 
> Powerpc has 2.4.26 (which was hostage in NEW for almost 2-3 weeks though), but
> will onlty enter testing in 4 days or so.

Ah - my script was looking for kernel-patch-<ver>-powerpc which only turns
up 2.4.25 - I see this has changed to kernel-patch-powerpc-<ver>.
I should've noticed it had no 2.6 kernels listed for powerpc.
I've updated my status page:
  http://people.debian.org/~dannf/kernel-stats/kernel-avail.html

> Can you explain these missing build-deps issues ? 

Sure:
  http://people.debian.org/~dannf/kernel-stats/kern-dep.html
Each '*' represents a build dependency on either the kernel-source,
kernel-tree, or kernel-debian-patch package from that version of kernel-source.

> >  - d-i status - what kernel is being used in d-i svn?  what kernel is in
> >    the current rc?
> >    (Hard to determine)
> 
> No, the d-i status can be looked at the kernel-wedge database used to build
> it.

I can easily check for the version of the kernel used in a given
linux-kernel-di, but that doesn't tell me what version is used as the
boot kernel, since l-k-di may have been updated.

It seems that the value of KERNELVERSION in installer/build/config/*/*.cfg
is what I want - but some of them are set to macros (sparc), so a grep won't
suffice.  A make rule in build/Makefile that just echos KERNELVERSION may
suffice though.



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