Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-26 Thread alebrun
Thanks to all for the interesting discussion. I'll contitue to use patch and make-kpkg then. Nothing to do till Sarge becomes stable :-) By the way, I didn't know it is so complicated to post to a mailing-list witout giving out my main e-mail. I thought it was a good idea to have exim set the F

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-26 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:31:02PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks to all for the interesting discussion. I'll contitue to > use patch and make-kpkg then. > Nothing to do till Sarge becomes stable :-) > > By the way, > I didn't know it is so complicated to post to a mailing-list witout >

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-25 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:34:54AM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > The "Debian Way", as I think i've heard it refered to, is merely the way > its done using Debian's particular tools (i.e. make-kpkg rather than the > all manual kernel compile, using .debs rather than installing from > source, etc). I

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-24 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 12:12, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:31:26AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >3) Perhaps there is an easier/better way to do this > > > > Well, not necessarily "better", but the simpler thing to do is just > > not use apt and Debia

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-24, Colin Watson penned: >> >> Well, not necessarily "better", but the simpler thing to do is just >> not use apt and Debian's packages for kernel management. Instead, >> manage that yourself, especially if you recompile your own kernel >> anyway. I'll be flamed for going against the

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-24 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 24. Februar 2004 17:31 schrieb Ed Cogburn: > > My questions are: > > 1) Is there a chance I did something wrong and end up having the security > > flaw not corrected or something broken in my kernel > > No, the kernel will be fine, but th

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:31:26AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >3) Perhaps there is an easier/better way to do this > > Well, not necessarily "better", but the simpler thing to do is just > not use apt and Debian's packages for kernel management. Instead, > manage that y

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! I'm running woody and try to stay up to date with security updates. We had recently 2 updates for the kernel. Downloading 24 MB over modem takes a bit of patience, so I tried to download only the diffs.gz file and patch it. First reverse patch from old debian versio

downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-24 Thread alebrun
Hi ! I'm running woody and try to stay up to date with security updates. We had recently 2 updates for the kernel. Downloading 24 MB over modem takes a bit of patience, so I tried to download only the diffs.gz file and patch it. First reverse patch from old debian version to orig files, then pa