Re: purpose of kernel-tree packages

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Horms <horms@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:11:24PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
>> also sprach Horms <horms@debian.org> [2005.02.11.0823 +0100]:
>> > > > Sounds good to me, though I am slightly dubious about the last
>> > > > paragraph. 
>> > > 
>> > > Well, can you think of a use outside of the offfical archive?
>> > 
>> > I am just dubious that it needs to be mentioned
>> > as I could contrive a use. But thats just me.
>> 
>> Please: contrive in public so we can hear!
>
> Ok, I want to have the latest kernel source installed,
> so I install kernel-tree. Thats a reason.

But there is neither a kernel-source-2.6 nor kernel-tree-2.6
package. And both kernel-source-2.6.10 and kernel-tree-2.6.10 will
give you the same 2.6.10 source, which might not be latest.

MfG
        Goswin