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Re: Building local kernels from Debian sources



On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:38:34PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:54:24PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > the Debian kernel sources even in sid frequently are not current
> > enough. 
> 
> that should evolve, now that the common build is ironed out the 
> initrd-tools replacements initramfs-tools and yaird are on the way.
> current experimental kernel is pretty latest upstream.

It still has to pass ftpmaster approval, and the Debian packages take
much longer to build due to the fact that they build multiple
flavours. And, of course, the time-to-mirror-pulse. I would expect
that locally rolled kernels are faster by at least a day.

Greetings
Marc

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