On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 11:37:09AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Guido, you're not going about it the right way. It's a three-way > merge. You take a kernel.org tree, diff it against the architecture > tree that you're interested in, and then wiggle it into applying to the > kernel source package that comes with Debian. It's not all that hard, > and there's a number of tools to help you (dirdiff, for instance; but > all I ever use is diff, patch, a text editor, and CVS/BK).
Why can't Debian have just one tree for multiple architectures like SuSE and RedHat (sometimes) do. Okay suse supports 'only' i386, x86_64,ppc,ppc64,s390,s390x,ia64 but their kernel also has patches for sparc,sparc64,mips and m68k although I can't guarantee that these really work in the relased tree (but last time I visted their office people were playing with those ports in their spare time). Sure, it's more work but I think it's worth it. And imagine how many people would scream if debian had $BIGNUM XFree86 or glibc packages..