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Re: Changes for 2.6.25



On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:06:47PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> [2008-02-14 19:43]:
> > - Deprecate kernel-package method. It is still used for alpha, arm,
> >   armel, hppa, ia64, mips, mipsel, sparc. It will be removed after the
> >   2.6.25 release to make it possible to use features like out-of-tree
> >   builds.
> Can you please elaborate on this some more?  What do the arches that
> still use kernel-package have to do in order to move to the new
> system?  Is there any documentation on this?

Sure. The documentation is the source, at least m68k managed to get it
working.

It needs two things in debian/rules.real:
- A target which installs the image. Example:
| install-image_s390_$(FEATURESET)_$(FLAVOUR)_plain_image
|         install -m644 '$(DIR)/arch/s390/boot/image' $(INSTALL_DIR)/vmlinuz-$(REAL_VERSION)

- Maybe a definition for template overrides. The type currently uses a
  copy of the kpkg templates which needs some additional information.
  Examples:
| install-image_powerpc_$(FEATURESET)_$(FLAVOUR)_plain_templates: ARG_KIMAGE = vmlinux
| install-image_s390_$(FEATURESET)_$(FLAVOUR)_plain_templates: ARG_BOOTLOADER = zipl

Bastian

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