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Re: when is kernel 2.4.19 likely to be in unstable?



On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 02:55:54AM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:51:59PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 01:55:16PM +1000, Oliver George wrote:
> > > Can someone tell me when the new kernel image (2.4.19) is likely to
> > > appear in debian/unstable?
> > 
> > When it happens.  In the mean time, if you have to be all bleeding
> > edge (as I do), just do the traditional method from tarball.  Takes
> > more work, but it'll get you there.
> 
> 	If I want a bleeding edge kernel, I typically do a uupdate from
                                                           ^^^^^^^
                                                           can you
                                                           elaborate?

Do you mean apply patches onto Debian kernel?

> the most recent kernel-source-* tree in Debian.  This gives me all the
> nice bug fixes that haven't QUITE made it into whatever tarball I've
> got.

I do not see target uupdate in Makefile nor debian/rules

Osamu
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