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Re: RFC: draft sub-policy for kernel patches



At Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:17:56 +0100,
Sven LUTHER wrote:

> > Hi wrote a small draft for directives wrt packaging of kernel patches.
> 
> I thought the new way of doing things, at least on ppc, was to use
> kernel-image source package, instead of kernel-patch packages ?

I think this policy is not intended for kernel-image source package
to build kernel-image, but just add-on patch packages such as ide,
kdb, reiserfs, usb, pc9800 and ipvs etc. i.e. patches which haven't
been merged in the kernel source itself yet. For example, I've created
kernel-image-pc9800 source package locally, which build-depends on
kernel-patch-pc9800. 

In kernel-image-pc9800's rules, the following command is used to make
the image:

PATCH_THE_KERNEL=YES make-kpkg --flavour pc9800 --added_patches=pc9800

Further more, kernel-image-i386 source package uses the kernel-patch-ide
patch package to build the kernel-image-ide image package.