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Package: user-mode-linux
Version: 2.4.26-2um-1
The user-mode-linux package allows only one packaged version of the
user-mode kernel to be installed at a time. It is sometimes desirable
to have more than one version installed.
If user-mode-linux were a virtual package provided by version-specific
packages, much like kernel-image is provided by version-specific
kernel packages (e.g. kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686), and file names were
carefully, several versions of user-mode kernel could be installed
concurrently. The default version could be selected using the
alternatives mechanism.
Even if the official Debian repository only contained a single kernel
version, this would allow users to easily build local packages for
other kernel versions, installing them together with the official
user-mode kernel.
I have tested this setup locally with a modified user-mode-linux
package, and it works very well, allowing me to have three versions of
the user-mode kernel installed concurrently.
--
David Byers.
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Hello,
the current user-mode-linux allows installing self rolled images by means of
make-kpkg.
The solution the OP proposes is kind of a PITA to maintain (going
through the NEW queue isn't fun for anybody and has never been discussed
with the FTP-master people). It will be doable once the debian-kernel
team will ship UML images.
Differently, bloating the archive with UML packages is not what this
package is for.
Ence I believe this bug is solved.
thanks
--
mattia
:wq!
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