Re: Binary kernel and base update

[Bryan Vyhmeister]

I just skimmed this whole thread and I am wondering about a couple of  
things. It appears that all of you are talking about basically  
following the instructions for release(8) and just providing the  
generated files for people. Is that correct?

If the above is true, I can also assist with building release(8) for  
i386, mac68k, macppc, sparc64, and zaurus. I could also get sparc up  
and running as well. I am in the U.S. but I could provide hosting  
fairly easily.

The original poster seemed to be asking more about an incremental  
update system. Maybe that's the wrong term but something along the  
lines of the name-your-favorite-linux-distribution setup. An example  
might be yum in CentOS (and others) or apt-get in Debian. This seems  
like a much more complicated option. While possible, it would take a  
lot of work. Any thoughts on this part?

One way of doing this would be to provide a tarball that contains all  
of the affected files or binaries relevant to the particular fix or  
possibly one large tarball with every fix for -stable up to that  
point. This could be installed with tar or even a nice little shell  
script. What about this?

Bryan