Joey Hess writes: > This is a proposal to change how source gets on a user's machine for > them to use to build the kernel, and associcated modules packages. <snip>
AOL! Jason Gunthorpe writes: > There are some issues though, what exactly should be done for > upgrade? Nuke the old files and unpack the new ones? Install new > ones along side? Apt already unpacks into packagename-version, which I think is a good idea here as well. The only unfortunate bit is that versioned packages (I'm thinking the kernel here) will look a bit silly. The question is, do we remove old source automatically? maybe that should be an option. [back to Joey] > b. It needs to be in a consistent location where kernel-package can find > and build it. Suggestion: add a new argument to the postinst in dpkg, something like "install-source". Then we could update the /usr/src/linux symlink automatically. I can't think of any other packages that would need it ATM, but once source build-depends are in place for other packages it could be useful. > This wouldn't only be useful for kernel and modules sources, I > imagine people would find other uses for up-to-date sources in a > consitent location. Well, since RedHat has several auto-package-updater scripts, we need to be able to brag about running apt-get at night, going to sleep, and waking up to a system with new packages optimzed to whatever processor we have already installed. ;-) -- There is no TRUTH. There is no REALITY. There is no CONSISTENCY. There are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS. I'm very probably wrong. -- BSD fortune(6)
