Re: 2.6.19, kernel-package problems and what are our plans for etch ...
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:31:22AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> > Well, the real problem is that Manoj could be part of the kernel team, and to
> > a point even is, since he has svn access to the repo.
> >
> > But there is a problem, in that Manoj's principal preocupacion is those user
> > who build their own kernel, and the official kernel is only an after thought
> > (not mentioning memories of when he was the debian kernel maintainer all those
> > years ago and whatnot), while Bastian handles most of the official kernel
> > infrastructure, and obviously doesn't care much about self-built ones.
>
> And Bastian is decidetly anti make-kpkg and wants to remove all
> make-kpkg use from linux-2.6 as stated several times now. You can see
> beginings of that in the xen kernels.
>
> Further one result of this dislike of kernel-package seems to be that
> you can't build proper custom kernels on mips, mipsel, s390 and ppc
> and no xen or vserver flavours anywhere. The debian patch is not
> make-kpkg compatible and again Bastian spoke against fixing the patch
> to work with kernel-package.
I consider kernel-package one of the best things in Debian and it is a
real pity that it is not being used to build the Debian kernel. Not
being able to use Debian's kernel build tool to build a Debian kernel
is depressing.
Greetings
Marc
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