From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751406AbVKIPVH (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:21:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751407AbVKIPVG (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:21:06 -0500 Received: from www.swissdisk.com ([216.144.233.50]:40932 "EHLO swissweb.swissdisk.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751406AbVKIPVF (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:21:05 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 06:09:52 -0800 From: Ben Collins To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Xavier Bestel , Alan Cox , Daniel Drake , Ben Collins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ubuntu kernel tree Message-ID: <20051109140952.GA30611@swissdisk.com> References: <20051106013752.GA13368@swissdisk.com> <436E17CA.3060803@gentoo.org> <1131316729.1212.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> <436F81D1.7000100@gentoo.org> <1131383311.11265.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1131383144.2477.9.camel@capoeira> <20051107173201.GF3847@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051107173201.GF3847@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 06:32:01PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 06:05:44PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 18:08, Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Llu, 2005-11-07 at 16:33 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > > Source RPM's will just contain a Linux kernel tree with your patches already > > > > applied, right? > > > > > > Of course not. Its an rpm file. RPM files contain a set of broken out > > > patches and base tar ball plus controlling rules for application. It's > > > rather more advanced than .deb sources. > > > > That's a troll, Alan. .deb contain exactely the same things. > > No, he's right. That's only right in the simplest form. However, the debian kernel and a huge portion of other complex packages contain a debian/patches/ directory that gets applied at build time. Each patch is broken out seperately, with description embedded in the patch. -- Ben Collins Developer Ubuntu Linux