30.03.2015 16:33, Erich Titl пишет:
> 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.
How it'll work with modules autoprobing? Local modules.tgz should also 
be fetched.
> - each modules-$ARCH directory has a modules.list file which is just the
> result of 'find kernel'
Maybe it'll be better to parse modules.dep? New kernel can have 
different deps, so distro becomes broken due to some missed modules.
> - 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
Why we can't use git tags for this?
>
> 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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