On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:35:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:06:07PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > The good news is that the Debian patch only creates files in debian/, > > which will make it apply cleanly even to vanilla kernel sources. Is it > > planned (documented as a committment of the kernel team) that this > > will stay that way? If yes, one could check out the Debian > > subdirectory without checking out the "real" kernel, which would > > greatly help in reducing download volume. > > Only the debian directory is found in the svn repo.
So it is best checked out directly into an unpacked kernel tree? > > Are the .svn directories inside kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-4.diff.gz > > left there intentionally? > No, it is an error. before building, one should always do a svn > export, to remove any cruft and local inconsistency. I had this > problem, and do that now, apparently Jens didn't for the 2.6.7-4 > upload. Would dpkg-buildpackage's -i option solve this issue? Or is an export really needed. > Hope these small answers will help some, They do, thanks. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29