On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 20:29, Ivan Marin <ispma...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/1/5 John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org>: >> Ivan Marin writes: >>> The main problem, I suppose, is to get the debian kernel patches. Is >>> there a easy way to do a diff between the changes in the kernel.org >>> sources and the debian patched sources? >> >> A Debian source package consists essentially of the pristine upstream >> source plus a diff containing the Debian changes. But why do you need >> them? >> -- > > I've been always curious about what are the changes that the Debian > kernel team does to the pristine kernel, if any, and the differences > between the pristine and the Debian .config. I will look at the > linux-source package.
You can look at the diff with zless <kernel package>.diff.gz . The debian/changelog file should contain even some references for the patch applied and why. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org