On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:00:11PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > Am Mi, den 07.07.2004 schrieb Christoph Hellwig um 14:58: > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:22:38PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > > > well, installing a kernel first to see if i like its patches is not very > > > compfortable. So i was actually referring to the description of > > > "apt-cache show kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7 kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7" which > > > does not list anything at all. I see that maintaining a list is > > > problematic, so maybe a pointer to the SVN/CVS URL would be helping. > > > Just some place i can check the list *BEFORE* downloading some 30MB off > > > the net (which i then remove after having read README.Debian). > > > > Ok, that's fine with me. I'll try to find a reasoanable way to > > implement that. > > Good ;) > > > > It was meant as a means to debug. Like i have a problem and i want to > > > find out which patch breaks (for vanilla kernel works fine), then > > > removing a certain patch and trying might make sense. It was not meant > > > for you to support Q&A for that, just a better way to build unsupported > > > personal kernel-images or report bugs after proving more details. If > > > that's not needed, ok fine. ;) > > > > just uncomment one of more patches from the 00list-$VERSION file. I'll > > try to find a proper place to document this. > > > You mean any of these two? > /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.7/debian/patch-2.6.7-1.bz2 > /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.7/debian/patch-2.6.7-2.bz2
For this kind of stuff, it is better to work on the source package of kernel-source. try apt-get source kernel-source-2.6.7 and experiment with it. Friendly, Sven Luther