Re: make-kpkg question.

[Adam Shand <larry@spack.org>]

>   you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any other
> kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you would have to
> make sure that the files that the patch changes are unchanged between
> 2.2.18 and whatever you will use).

yah, i know that :)

>   I don't know whether you can use non-debian tarball instead of
> debian source, but it's easy enough to check - get the
> kernel-source-2.2.17 and 'standard' kernel tarball for 2.2.17 and
> compare them - if they are different, you don't want to use tarball
> instead of kernel package.

the problem is that there are lots of superficial differences (readme's
etc) and i wasn't sure if it was just a couple text files which were
inserted or if there was some greater significance that i was missing.

thanks,
adam.