On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:17:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Hi wrote a small draft for directives wrt packaging of kernel patches. > I'd like to have comments on this. I attach the text version. An > HTML version is available at > http://people.debian.org/~dirson/kpatches/kpatch-policy.html/ >
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> 1.1. Using `make-kpkg' to build patched kernels
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> The default configuration of `make-kpkg' is to ignore any available
> patches and build a package with whatever kernel source is in the
> current directory. You can tell him to use patches from under
> `/usr/src/kernel-patches/', either by setting the `PATCH_THE_KERNEL'
> environment variable to `YES' [1].
>
> When asked to apply patches, `make-kpkg' will apply all patches it
> finds for the current architecture and version for the kernel being
> built. You may want to only select some of them using the
> `--added_patches' option.
>
> [1] You may also set the `patch_the_kernel' variable in
> `/etc/kernel-pkg.conf', but I discourage this, you may well forget you
> have this set one day.
>
>
> 1.2. How `make-kpkg' applies patches
> ------------------------------------
>
> It looks for `apply' scripts in the following subdirectories of
> `/usr/src/kernel-patches/':
> 1. `$ARCH/$VERSION/apply/'
> 2. `$ARCH/apply/'
> 3. `all/$VERSION/apply/'
> 4. `all/apply/'
>
> At the time it will want to remove those patches, it will then look
> into similar directories with name `unpatch'.
>
> Typically the main job of these scripts is to apply a diff, but well,
> they are scripts after all, and more complex tasks in need of
> something more smart than `patch' may make use of this power.
>
>
This seems like it will start cluttering /usr/src
Maybe we should move it all to $topdir/kernel where $topdir defaults to
/usr/src
and under here we have subsirs
$topdir
kernel
modules
patches
source
Comments?
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Frank aka Myth
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