> On Jan 4, 2009, Bruno Miguel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Are your .debs available for the general public? Would you like to make > >> them available, be it under say freed-ebian (alongside freed-ora, > >> building deblobbed kernels as similar as possible to those of distros) > >> or as part of Ali Gündüz's Freedom Shoppe project (most recent kernels > >> for distros)? > > > > I could do it. > > Cool. Are they significantly different from Ali's packages at > http://www.aligunduz.org/gNewSense/ ? > > AFAIK he builds them using the 'custom' kernel build machinery, rather > than something more along the lines of pbuilder. > > Also, he builds them based on Linux-libre releases, rather than keeping > them as close as possible to Debian's. > > I think it would be nice and useful for Debian users to have kernel > binaries that are 100% Free, but that are as close as possible to > Debian's in other regards. E.g., running the deblob scripts on Debian's > kernel source tree, deblob-checking it, and then running pbuilder on the > resulting source tree. This is what I'd call freed-ebian kernels. Is > this, by any chance, kind of what you're doing?
What I did was copying the .config from a debian stock kernel but didn't update it with make oldconfig. Then, I build it using this instructions: http://howtoforge.com/roll_a_kernel_debian_ubuntu_way > Regardless, if you could put your source and binary packages up > somewhere people can reach them (maybe even an apt repo), I'd be glad to > link to it off the linux-libre page. That will be a bit more hard, since I don't have a server for them (too much money and I'm unemployed) > > Just tell me if I have to give them specific names and version > > numbers or something like that > > That's all up to you :-) It's your builds, after all :-) > > Now, if you'd like to help with a freed-ebian repo and take that out of > my own to-do list, I have a few ideas on how I planned to do it :-) I can do it, but I won't be able to provide users the help needed when they find a bug. I'm no hacker. _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
