Common kernel-image source package

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

Hi,

I have started working on the common kernel-image package, the one which 
will be capable of building kernel-image for all arches and subarches.
The (not so impressive so far) results are in the svn, in the directory
branches/kernel-image-2.6.11.

Following ideas so far (some may not be implemented yet):

 * The build procedure is controlled by a small number of variables,
   set near the to of debian/rules. So far they are: version, abiname,
   ktver (version of kernel-tree to depend on) and kbuildver (version
   of kbuild to depend on). That allows to get rid of all these horrible
   regexps, extracting needing information from control files.

 * Architecture specific files are placed in arch/ subdir, for example,
   arch/i386, arch/sparc, etc. The following files are expected to be
   there:
   - Makefile.inc  - included by debian/rules at the end of variable
     definitions. Allows to override the setting in debian/rules on
     per-arch basis.
   - control.in    - per-arch control.in
   - config.common - common kernel config for architecture.
   - config.<subarch_a>, config.<subarch_b>, etc. - subarch configs.

 * debian/control is generated dynamically by cat'ing the common
   debian/control.in file and architecture specific file, followed
   by a variable substitution, eliminating the need for editing it
   with every version or abiname change.

 * kernel config for a subarch is generated by cat'ing together
   common all-arch config file with per-arch config file, and
   the subarch-specific config file.

I would appreciate any feedback and feature requests/proposals.

Thanks and best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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