Re: RFC: draft sub-policy for kernel patches

[Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org>]

At Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:52:32 +0100,
Yann Dirson wrote:

> > I've already wirtten a dh_installkernelpatch debhelper program,
> > and now uses it in kernel-patch-pc9800 as a test.
> 
> Got a look at the kernel-patch-pc9800 source.  You didn't include the
> dh_installkernelpatch script, and there is no build-depends for a package
> that would contain it - that would warrant a "cannot build from source"
> bug report, severyti "important" :(

Yes, this is a bug :( Currently, dh_installkernelpatch has been included
in my local kernel-pacakge (>= 7.20.1)?
I've already sent the source to debhelper@packages.debian.org (joeyh?).
... but has no any reply... need to resent?

> A quick glance at your template files shows your approach has been very
> similar to mine.  However, my scripts do add a couple of things, like the
> "don't break the source" behaviour I described - only in "apply" for now,
> though - and support for patches agausnt multiple versions of a kernel (as
> demonstrated by kernel-patches-kdb.

dh_installkernelpatch -m "2.2.14 2.2.15 2.2.16" installs the patch
for version 2.2.14, 2.2.15, 2.2.16.

> I'd be glad to take a look at its source.  If it has any functionality mine
> doesn't, I'll promptly port it :)

First of all, I dupload the local kernel-package with dh_installkernelpatch
at http://www.debian.org/~taru/tmp/

deb     http://va.debian.org/~taru/tmp ./
deb-src http://va.debian.org/~taru/tmp ./

and do apt-get install kernel-package.

Let's improvment the program :)