Re: Patches for the kernel

Why does someone not put together an apt-getable kernel image/source.

Would that not be the easiest way to solve this?


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:40:13 +0200, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It's not available mainly for the reason that it's not feasible to
> > maintain a
> > single patch file in cvs.
> 
> Well... usually a patchset is used as means for distribution. The developers
> keep using the cvs and track / merge the original source tree (in this case
> the vanilla kernel), while users patch the vanilla kernel using released
> patchsets against known kernels.
> 
> Requiring someone to copy files in the vanilla tree from an external and
> mutable cvs source is prone to errors, and forces the xbox "patches" to be
> applied before other patches, which is not always the best option.
> 
> Also, another problem is that most users will just checkout the latest HEAD
> from the cvs, and this is not always a match for the corresponding vanilla
> kernel. For example, cvs is tracking 2.4.27 while I need to work on 2.4.26.
> Luckily you have tagged the 2.4.26 release, so it's easy to get that "copy",
> but it's usually preferrable to have tarballs for specific releases
> ready-to-download and/or archive, in case the cvs goes heads down.
> 
> However, you're right. I can make a patchset for xbox myself, so I can work
> in the normal way. I just wanted to point this little "strangeness" out :-)
> 
> In case someone is wondering... I'm setting up a small cluster for parallel
> computing.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> DaveXXX
> 
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