Bug#385102: linux-patch-debian-2.6.17: broken unpatch/debian script (calls non-existent "/usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.17" dir)
Package: linux-patch-debian-2.6.17
Version: 2.6.17-7
Severity: important
Hi,
I'm just an end user, and I was originally downloading
linux-source-<version> packages to compile them "the Debian way" with
make-kpkg. I decided that it might be nice to save the time downloading
the entire kernel source, and instead just download the Debian patches.
Also, I thought it might be easy to integrate other patches I have with
the same system make-kpkg uses for the "debian" patches.
/usr/src/kernel-patches/all/unpatch is the following script:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
upstream="2.6.17"
exec "/usr/src/kernel-patches/all/$upstream/apply/debian" \
"$upstream-0"
But there's no /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.17 directory.
This is easily fixed (at least I think it's fixed) with a symlink from
/usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.17 -> /usr/src/kernel-patches/all, but
I'm not sure this is really the best way to go about it. make-kpkg has
a lot of pieces to it, and maybe in the long run this is a bad idea.
So I was hoping to close this bug you could make this package work out
of the box and maybe install some text file in
/usr/share/doc/linux-patch-debian-2.6.17 if there's something a simple
end user not in the know (like myself) needs to know to get everything
working.
Thanks,
Sukant
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-hole
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages linux-patch-debian-2.6.17 depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.3-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii python2.4-minimal 2.4.3-8 A minimal subset of the Python lan
linux-patch-debian-2.6.17 recommends no packages.
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