Re: Debian or vanilla kernel - best of both worlds possible?
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:46:45PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:35:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:06:07PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > The good news is that the Debian patch only creates files in debian/,
> > > which will make it apply cleanly even to vanilla kernel sources. Is it
> > > planned (documented as a committment of the kernel team) that this
> > > will stay that way? If yes, one could check out the Debian
> > > subdirectory without checking out the "real" kernel, which would
> > > greatly help in reducing download volume.
> >
> > Only the debian directory is found in the svn repo.
>
> So it is best checked out directly into an unpacked kernel tree?
Yep, it should. There may be some +x chmoding needed maybe, not sure though.
> > > Are the .svn directories inside kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-4.diff.gz
> > > left there intentionally?
>
> > No, it is an error. before building, one should always do a svn
> > export, to remove any cruft and local inconsistency. I had this
> > problem, and do that now, apparently Jens didn't for the 2.6.7-4
> > upload.
>
> Would dpkg-buildpackage's -i option solve this issue? Or is an export
> really needed.
Well, the export make sure you remvoe local cruft or stuff you forgot to
commit.
Friendly,
sven Luther
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