Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:39:29AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > In working on the boot floppies code, I finally sat down and cleaned up the
> > kernel packages for powerpc. I've made a set of kernel-patch-2.2.14-powerpc
>
> Why not the kernel-image-xxx package? kernel-patch is obsolete. The control
> with the kernel-image package is much better then with the kernel-patches.
> You have no dependencies for debmake, kernel-package and some others.
I did try kernel-image packages; I found that kernel-patch worked much
better. I've rewritten its rules almost from scratch. If you really
want to stick with kernel-image, I suppose that's OK, but there's no
real reason to have our own full kernel source in the archive when a
small-in-comparison patch works just fine. I just need to fix one or
two buglets in my rules file and it will build all the necessary
kernels automatically.
> Please ask next time the maintainer.
That's why I didn't upload them. You haven't been around much, and I
desperately needed 2.2.14 kernels.
> > Now I need to fix quik and console-data...
>
> I cannot test quik here. console-data is my resort, now that i'm back from holidays.
Console-data may be taken care of. Joey Hess was working on it all of
Monday. I'm seeing right now if it builds.
I just committed almost all of my patches for boot-floppies to CVS.
Barring the issues with kbd and console-data, it should build out of
the box (only tested with my kernel-patch packages, no way bootprep.sh
will go through otherwise).
Dan
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