Hi Folks

I adapted the 5.1.4-rc1 branch in the package repository to provide all
necessary data to upgrade.

the main differences to the existing packages are

- modules-$ARCH.tgz tarballs are unpacked into module-$ARCH directories,
this makes no big difference in size, as the modules are compressed
anyway. The tarballs can be deleted.
- each modules-$ARCH directory has a modules.list file which is just the
result of 'find kernel'
- the firmware tarball is unpacked in a firmware directory one level
above the arch directories. The firmware is architecture independent, so
it does not make much sense to store it multiple times.
- the kernel version numbers are removed from the kernel file names.
There is no way for upgrade to guess the version number, so we need a
generic name for the kernel files.
- there are files called 'stable' and 'latest' in the master branch
which just hold the information of the respective branch, e.g. stable
holds 5.1.3, latest holds 5.1.4-rc1

Caveats

As of now only i386 files can be handled. This is because I have no way
to find out the correct paths and information for rpi and X86-64
As of now only upgrade --latest is supported, as the stable branch is
5.1.3 and there are quite a number of files missing.

To do

- add files to stable
- add correct files to stable branches
- testing, testing, testing

Have fun

ET

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