On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 09:31:28 +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> i hope you don't mind me asking a question... also sprach Manoj
> Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.06.0223 +0200]:
>> % sudo echo 'debian := 5:501c' >> /etc/kernel-pkg.conf
> what does this line do?
It sets the debian revision without me having to remember to
do so all the time.
> the reason why i don't like your approach, although i really
> appreciate you showing it to me, is as follows: i have about 33
> machines under my control, each of which i run with customised
> kernels. and each of which is different, of course.
I fail to see why my approach would cause you a
problem. Indeed, I think it would save you disk space.
> and manoj: i don't think i quite get lndir yet. i mean, i understand
> 100% what it does. i just don't know how i can profit of it. it only
> works if the ln'd source trees all have the same patches, right? so
> unless i want to keep a source tree around for each patch
> combination, it won't really help me a lot, right?
Ok. I like to upgfrade between kernel version using patches
from ftp.us.kernel.org; so I need to keep a source tree in as near a
pristine state as I can.
So, here is what I do.
Once I have /usr/local/src/kernel/linux-2.4.20, say, I do
this:
last_version=2.4.18 # I never went for 2.4.19
for machine in kallissin ember smaug scatha glaurung, tiamat ;do
mkdir $machine
scp $machine:/boot/config-$last_version $machine/.config
cd $machine
lndir ../linux-2.4.20
cd ..
done
for machine in kallissin ember smaug scatha glaurung, tiamat ;do
if [ -f . configdirs/$machine ]; then
. configdirs/$machine
# $patches is now either empty, or it has --added-patches=a,b
fi
cd $machine
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --append-to-version $machine \
$patches $modules kernel_image
if [ "X$modules" != "X" ]; then
fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version $machine \
$patches $modules modules_image
fi
make-kpkg clean
done
See? Each lndir directory only has files that were patched, or
object files; and the ../linux-2.4.20 is pristine, ready to be
patched up to 2.4.21.
manoj
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