Re: Kernel source packages..

2008-04-15 Thread Digby Tarvin
on the differences between the various kernel source packages in the repository, kernel-source-* are for sarge and below linux-source-* are for etch and beyond Then do apt-cache show $PACKAGE and read the Description: (for example, difference between linux-source-2.6.18 and linux-tree-2.6.18

Re: Kernel source packages..

2008-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.04.14.0252 +0200]: The example in my Martin Kraft book refers to: apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 but I can't find a 'kernel-source-anything'.. Try linux-source-*. The kernel packaging has changed substantially since my book was

Kernel source packages..

2008-04-13 Thread Digby Tarvin
Can anyone shed any light on the differences between the various kernel source packages in the repository, and which is the best choice for just being able to reproduce the running kernel? The example in my Martin Kraft book refers to: apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 but I can't find

Re: Kernel source packages..

2008-04-13 Thread David Witbrodt
Can anyone shed any light on the differences between the various kernel source packages in the repository, and which is the best choice for just being able to reproduce the running kernel? The example in my Martin Kraft book refers to: apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 but I

Re: Kernel source packages..

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:52:41AM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: Can anyone shed any light on the differences between the various kernel source packages in the repository, kernel-source-* are for sarge and below linux-source-* are for etch and beyond Then do apt-cache show $PACKAGE and read

question about kernel source packages

2007-08-28 Thread icelinux
I notice there is a source package for the kernel and a package of debian patches. Has the kernel source already been patched or would one need to patch it with all of the included debian patches when building a custom kernel? Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not

Re: question about kernel source packages

2007-08-28 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/28/2007 12:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice there is a source package for the kernel and a package of debian patches. Has the kernel source already been patched or would one need to patch it with all of the included debian patches when building a custom kernel? It's already

Re: question about kernel source packages

2007-08-28 Thread icelinux
Quoting Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 08/28/2007 12:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice there is a source package for the kernel and a package of debian patches. Has the kernel source already been patched or would one need to patch it with all of the included debian patches when

Re: question about kernel source packages

2007-08-28 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:15:08 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 08/28/2007 12:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice there is a source package for the kernel and a package of debian patches. Has the kernel source already been patched or would

Re: question about kernel source packages

2007-08-28 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/28/2007 02:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 08/28/2007 12:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice there is a source package for the kernel and a package of debian patches. Has the kernel source already been patched or would one need to patch it

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing {Scanned} {Scanned}

2006-10-22 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? shrug Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 08:08:28 -0500, Henry Hollenberg wrote: Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? shrug Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 22 October 2006 15:41, Florian Kulzer wrote: If your package manager lists these packages as upgradable then you either have not run update in a while or the progeny mirror is seriously broken or you have found a bug in the package manager. I had the same problem in Etch a few days

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-16 Thread David Baron
On Monday 16 October 2006 02:08, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Robert Baldwin wrote: i am using debian etch/testing and the mirror us.debian.org http://us.debian.org. when i try to install nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source it fails b/c they don't exist here (on the mirror). however the

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-16 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:39, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? shrug Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-16 Thread dtutty
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:05:39PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:39, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? shrug Because the

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon October 16 2006 06:47 am, David Baron wrote: Yes, they are closed but the drivers are apparently the same. The glx maybe not. I get much better results with those on Nvidia's site than those on Sid. I keep the Sid nvidia-kernel-source package around because when this is upgrades, so is

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Robert Baldwin wrote: i am using debian etch/testing and the mirror us.debian.org http://us.debian.org. when i try to install nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source it fails b/c they don't exist here (on the mirror). however the nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-kernel-legacy-source packages are

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? shrug Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror pulse to finish. You

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 16 October 2006 01:39, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? shrug Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? shrug Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use another mirror or wait for the

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? shrug Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use another mirror or wait for the

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? shrug Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use another mirror or wait for the

nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-07-10 Thread Robert Baldwin
i am using debian etch/testing and the mirror us.debian.org. when i try to install nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source it fails b/c they don't exist here (on the mirror). however the nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-kernel-legacy-source packages are there. when i viewed this mirror with firefox, sarge

Re: kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-20 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 01:15, Andreas Janssen wrote: Olle Eriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What is the difference between the kernel source from kernel.org and the Debian kernel-source-* packages? The only thing I can find about that is some discussion from 1997 concluding

kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-19 Thread Olle Eriksson
Hi What is the difference between the kernel source from kernel.org and the Debian kernel-source-* packages? The only thing I can find about that is some discussion from 1997 concluding that there is no difference except that the debian packages handles the /usr/src/linux symlink for you. Sorry

Re: kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Olle! On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:04:48AM +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote: What is the difference between the kernel source from kernel.org and the Debian kernel-source-* packages? The only thing I can find about that is The README.Debian lists several changes, including additions, patches

Re: kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-19 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Olle Eriksson wrote: Hi What is the difference between the kernel source from kernel.org and the Debian kernel-source-* packages? The only thing I can find about that is some discussion from 1997 concluding that there is no difference except that the debian packages handles the /usr/src

Re: kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Olle Eriksson wrote: Hi What is the difference between the kernel source from kernel.org and the Debian kernel-source-* packages? The only thing I can find about that is some discussion from 1997 concluding that there is no difference except that the debian packages handles the /usr/src/linux

Re: kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Olle Eriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What is the difference between the kernel source from kernel.org and the Debian kernel-source-* packages? The only thing I can find about that is some discussion from 1997 concluding that there is no difference except that the debian packages

Re: kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, Olle Eriksson penned: Hi What is the difference between the kernel source from kernel.org and the Debian kernel-source-* packages? The only thing I can find about that is some discussion from 1997 concluding that there is no difference except that the debian packages handles

Re: kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Brazil
The differance between vanilla kernels and debian kernels is that Debian a) removes stuff it believes to not be sufficiently free - something about patches to eeproms b) adds some patches - e.g. some additional network card drivers Also in my experiance they don't create the /usr/src/linux

Re: Doesn't kernel-source packages provides kernel-headers?

2000-02-09 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul J. Keenan) wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaul Karl) wrote: It is my understanding that each kernel-source package provides kernel-headers. Yet kernel-source-2.2.14 does not mention it. What am I missing? No,

Re: Doesn't kernel-source packages provides kernel-headers?

2000-02-07 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaul Karl) wrote: It is my understanding that each kernel-source package provides kernel-headers. Yet kernel-source-2.2.14 does not mention it. What am I missing? No, kernel-source doesn't provide kernel headers. However, if

Re: Doesn't kernel-source packages provides kernel-headers?

2000-02-07 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaul Karl) wrote: It is my understanding that each kernel-source package provides kernel-headers. Yet kernel-source-2.2.14 does not mention it. What am I missing? No, kernel-source doesn't provide kernel headers.

Doesn't kernel-source packages provides kernel-headers?

2000-02-03 Thread Shaul Karl
It is my understanding that each kernel-source package provides kernel-headers. Yet kernel-source-2.2.14 does not mention it. What am I missing? -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.

Re: Doesn't kernel-source packages provides kernel-headers?

2000-02-03 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaul Karl) wrote: It is my understanding that each kernel-source package provides kernel-headers. Yet kernel-source-2.2.14 does not mention it. What am I missing? No, kernel-source doesn't provide kernel headers. However, if you install kernel-package you'll be able to use

what patches have been applied to the kernel-source-* packages?

1999-09-13 Thread Mark Buda
I know this is documented somewhere. I've seen it. Unfortunately, I can't figure out where I've seen it. What patches are applied to the pristine kernel source to make the distributed Debian kernel-source packages? And where do they come from? And where is this documented? -- I get my monkeys