Bug#337509: marked as done (linux-headers-2.6.14: flavours file missing)

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:19:58PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:58:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Bastian, please give a bit more info about this, and why should we not keep
> > the flavours file, it was there for a reason, and it is much more user
> > friendly to have it in a file, instead of having to do some strange search for
> > config files like you suggest here, which may clash in case of user built
> > packages being around.
> 
> The flavours file does not provide the neccesary informations to build
> anything against it. No information about the kernel arch, nor about the
> compiler.

Huh ? It contain the list of the names of the flavours for a given arch. In
this sense it is exactly the info provided in the arch/<arch>/defines file,
and once you have that, you prefix it to the version-abi, and you know which
kernels you then need to build for. This file is naturally per arch, and the
arch you are building for is the arch you need. As for the compiler, well, it
will be the one currently in sid/etch or whatever.

The aim is to have each external module packages be able to build binary
module packages for the official kernel flavours, and to generate the control
file of those packages and such stuff.

Friendly,

Sven Luther