Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:11:54PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:59:09AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:38:31PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > >   I may be able to provide a pegasos box to whoever decides to take over this
> > > >   burden, but can't promise anything. Do you volunteer for that ? 
> > > 
> > > I am happy to build packages and track down patches if no one else wants to.
> > > But someone a little more involved in powerpc development (or at least
> > > uses powerpc) might be better.
> > 
> > Yep, altough as far as patches are concerned, these are stable kernels, so
> > only normal security stuff is supposed to go in, and this we do anyway.
> 
> Understood

As for building 2.4.27 powerpc kernels :

  sudo apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27
  svn export .../trunk/kernel-2.4/powerpc/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.4.27 /path/to/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.4.27
  cd /path/to/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.4.27
  sudo apt-get build-dep kernel-patch-powerpc-2.4.27
  dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc 

For modifications, the configs are in config, and the patches in patch. I
would still be willing to do these parts, i am only not interested in
triggereing the builds signing and uploading, which is stuff which should be
automated.

Friendly,

Sven Luther