Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-10 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 04:08:47PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:09:00PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > err, maybe i misunderstood, but the kernel-image source package only > > contains > > the patches, and will source depend on kernel-source-version to get the full >

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-10 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> I did try kernel-image packages; I found that kernel-patch worked much > better. I've rewritten its rules almost from scratch. If you really > want to stick with kernel-image, I suppose that's OK, but there's no I don't like dependencies, and kernel-patch is one extra to build the images. The

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Joel Klecker
At 16:08 -0500 2000-02-09, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >There's a new ppc boot floppies in incoming if anyone wants to try >them. I really doubt they can be worse than what we have in the >archive now. The arch check is still broken. The first diff fixes that. The second diff uses the `fdisk' wrappe

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:09:00PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > err, maybe i misunderstood, but the kernel-image source package only contains > the patches, and will source depend on kernel-source-version to get the full > kernel. Ooops, you're right. I consider kernel-patch preferable to kernel-i

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:49:50AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:39:29AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > In working on the boot floppies code, I finally sat down and cleaned up > > > the > > > kernel packages for powerpc. I've made a set of > > > kernel-patch-2

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:39:29AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > In working on the boot floppies code, I finally sat down and cleaned up the > > kernel packages for powerpc. I've made a set of kernel-patch-2.2.14-powerpc > > Why not the kernel-image-xxx package? kernel-patch is obsolete. The

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> In working on the boot floppies code, I finally sat down and cleaned up the > kernel packages for powerpc. I've made a set of kernel-patch-2.2.14-powerpc Why not the kernel-image-xxx package? kernel-patch is obsolete. The control with the kernel-image package is much better then with the kernel

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
While you were at it were you able to make changes necessary to properly install on a PPC that just needs the kernel image dd'd to the PReP boot partition? Respectfully, Jeremy T. Bouse UnderGrid Network Services, LLC Daniel Jacobowitz was said to been seen saying

New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
In working on the boot floppies code, I finally sat down and cleaned up the kernel packages for powerpc. I've made a set of kernel-patch-2.2.14-powerpc packages, with images for chrp, prep, and pmac (no common - I need to fix make-kpkg first, it won't build that subarch right now). I'd really app