Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:00:11PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> Am Mi, den 07.07.2004 schrieb Christoph Hellwig um 14:58:
> > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:22:38PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote:
> > > well, installing a kernel first to see if i like its patches is not very
> > > compfortable. So i was actually referring to the description of
> > > "apt-cache show kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7 kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7" which
> > > does not list anything at all. I see that maintaining a list is
> > > problematic, so maybe a pointer to the SVN/CVS URL would be helping.
> > > Just some place i can check the list *BEFORE* downloading some 30MB off
> > > the net (which i then remove after having read README.Debian).
> >
> > Ok, that's fine with me. I'll try to find a reasoanable way to
> > implement that.
>
> Good ;)
>
> > > It was meant as a means to debug. Like i have a problem and i want to
> > > find out which patch breaks (for vanilla kernel works fine), then
> > > removing a certain patch and trying might make sense. It was not meant
> > > for you to support Q&A for that, just a better way to build unsupported
> > > personal kernel-images or report bugs after proving more details. If
> > > that's not needed, ok fine. ;)
> >
> > just uncomment one of more patches from the 00list-$VERSION file. I'll
> > try to find a proper place to document this.
>
>
> You mean any of these two?
> /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.7/debian/patch-2.6.7-1.bz2
> /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.7/debian/patch-2.6.7-2.bz2
For this kind of stuff, it is better to work on the source package of
kernel-source.
try apt-get source kernel-source-2.6.7 and experiment with it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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