Re: Bug#278729: kernel-image-2.6-k7: kernel-image-2.6*-k7* and 2.6*-686* should
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:53:47PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 00:22:23 +0900, Horms <horms@debian.org> said:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:01:24AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:26:17 +0100, Sven Luther
> >> <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> said:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:30:53PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:36:13AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> >> >> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:19:36AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >> >> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 11:31:10 +0900
> >> >> > > Horms <horms@debian.org> wrote:
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > > Waldi, can you coment on how to add a recommends to images
> >> >> > > > on a per-flavour basis?
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Isn't per-flavour control hints one of the new features of
> >> >> > > the soon-to-be-in-sid kernel-package?
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > If so, I suggest using that instead of bloating linux-2.6
> >> >> > > packaging unnecessarily.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > linux-2.6 packaging already has quite nice per-flavour
> >> >> > dependency handling, thank you.
> >>
> >> Would it not be nice to push it down into the underlying tool, so
> >> that even endusers get a nicely hinted per flavour images, as
> >> appropriate? I mean, we cater to all users, not just those that use
> >> official Debian kernels.
>
> > Don't we need to handle the control file ourselves because we make
> > multiple make-kpkg invocations which all come together to form a
> > single source package?
>
> I am planning on constructing the control file from bits even
> in the default install so that the uml and xen images do not show up
> in the control file but are never built, and we get all the "package
> exists in control file but not in changes" warnings. Perhaps there
> can be a set of mini-control files concatenated together into a
> control file before it is read by Make?
Manoj, we already do this, see the templates dir and bin/gencontrol.py. I told
you that earlier already.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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