On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:31:22AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, the real problem is that Manoj could be part of the kernel team, and > > to > > a point even is, since he has svn access to the repo. > > > > But there is a problem, in that Manoj's principal preocupacion is those user > > who build their own kernel, and the official kernel is only an after thought > > (not mentioning memories of when he was the debian kernel maintainer all > > those > > years ago and whatnot), while Bastian handles most of the official kernel > > infrastructure, and obviously doesn't care much about self-built ones. > > And Bastian is decidetly anti make-kpkg and wants to remove all > make-kpkg use from linux-2.6 as stated several times now. You can see > beginings of that in the xen kernels. > > Further one result of this dislike of kernel-package seems to be that > you can't build proper custom kernels on mips, mipsel, s390 and ppc > and no xen or vserver flavours anywhere. The debian patch is not > make-kpkg compatible and again Bastian spoke against fixing the patch > to work with kernel-package.
I consider kernel-package one of the best things in Debian and it is a real pity that it is not being used to build the Debian kernel. Not being able to use Debian's kernel build tool to build a Debian kernel is depressing. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
