Re: How do I depend on a specific kernel version?
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:45:42 -0500, Aubin Paul <aubin@punknews.org>
wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:32:48PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> I am currently working on a package that provides the framework to
>> build an IP packet filter based on netfilter / iptables. This needs a
>> 2.4.x kernel. How do I depend on a kernel-image-2.4.x?
>
>It might be simpler to just depend on iptables.
... which doesn't seem to depend on a 2.4 kernel.
>> Next project will be a package that needs 802.1q kernel support. This
>> is a kernel patch. I am aware that there is some infrastructure in
>> debian to support kernel patches and works well with kernel-package.
>> Is this infrastructure documented somewhere on the net? How can I make
>> a package depend on a patched kernel?
>
>Take a look at alsa-source or pcmcia-source, both build patches. It
>might help a little...
Yes, thanks.
Greetings
Marc
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