On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:41:07AM +0000, Ketil Froyn wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some trouble with Bug#285521, where my laptop will not > suspend any more when I close the lid. I'd like to inspect a diff > between the kernel-image source for 2.4.27-1-686-2.4.27-2 and > 2.4.27-1-686-2.4.27-6 to look for anything that might affect this, but > I'm not even sure how to get the source for -2 any longer... (As I'm > sure you've worked out, I'm still quite fresh with Debian). > > Any pointers would be appreciated, or if there is already a fix, > please let me know so I don't waste any more time. :)
Hi Keitl, You are in luck. The source for kernel-image-XXX-2.4.27 packages is provided by the kernel-source-2.4.27 package, and in the case of the package you refer to above, and all over i386 packages, this source is used completly unmodified. If you install kernel-patch-debian-2.4.27 then you will get all of the patches that were used to construct _all_ versions of kernel-source-2.4.27. They live in /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.4.27/debian/ In /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.4.27/debian/series/ you will find the meta-files which control which patches went into which version. A line starting with a + means the patch was added, a line starting with a - means the patch was removed, and a line starting with an X means a file was removed, usually because of licencing problems. Additionally, if you look in the changelog, you will see a fairly detailed list of what changes were made to which version. /usr/share/doc/kernel-patch-debian-2.4.27/changelog.Debian.gz The only trick is to note that confusingly, kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 2.4.27-2 was actually built against kernel-source-2.4.27/kernel-patch-debian-2.4.27 2.4.27-5. To reiterate, you actually want to compare the difference between kernel-source-2.4.27/kernel-patch-debian-2.4.27 2.4.27-5 and kernel-source-2.4.27/kernel-patch-debian-2.4.27 2.4.27-6. >From there things get a bit easier to follow as kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 2.4.27-6 was built against kernel-source-2.4.27/kernel-patch-debian-2.4.27 2.4.27-6. Simmilarly for 2.4.27-7. And the plan is to do the same for 2.4.27-8. If you want to apply the patches here is what to do. install kernel-source-2.4.27 Find some spare disk space and run tar -jxf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27.tar.bz2 cd kernel-source-2.4.27 This will give you a directory with the patched kernel source, to find out which version run cat version.Debian To patch to a different version run override_version=2.4.27 /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.4.27/apply/debian You can control the version to patch to by changing the value of override_version=2.4.27. 2.4.27 means pristine (less files that have been removed for licencing reasons, as they can't be recreated). 2.4.27-1, would mean the -1 release and so on. After each invocation of this command you can inspect version.Debian to find out what version you are at. If it is missing then 2.4.27 is assumed by the script, so you should probably do the same. Please note, that the way this work is implemented by the kernel-source-2.4.27 package. While kernel-source-2.6.8,9,10, have similar systems, based on the code, they are not exactly the same, so be careful. And for 2.4.26 and earlier, the system was not as well developed and did not allow you to inspect individual patches. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
