On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 07:38:01PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Well, if I have a collections of patches and want to build a > kernel-source package make-kpkg kernel_source sounds like the right tool > to archive that, no? BTW, while we're at it: Wouldn't now be a good time to check whether we still need those kernel-source binary packages? That sounds soooo 90s.
Why don't we have the vanilla[1] kernel as .orig.tar.gz, the debian build system as .diff.gz, and the needed patches either in the diff as well, or as binary packages the kernel Build-Depends on (possibly only for specific architectures). The kernel-images and -headers would then be built as binary packages from that source package. People who want to build their own kernels should know how to run 'apt-get source' by now. Just a thought, I'm not even a kernel-packager-wannabe... Michael -- [1] or vanilla modulo DFSG, blah, whatever
