[Pkg-xen-devel] Are we there yet?

[Guido Trotter]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:39:08PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:

Hi,

> not really sure what happens if you "just" use mkbuildtree. But I am hoping 
> that upstream fixes the patch generation anyways, I would like to use this 
> function for patch generation.
> 

mkbuildtree + patches... Well, at least I have a kernel that works! ;)

> of course it's not a critical problem that the extraversion is missing in 
> the .config, but of course I can life with it the way it is (it's exactly how 
> my package handled it).
> 
> But you should add "--append_to_version .6-xen" to the make-kpkg options to 
> have a kernel that reports "2.6.12.6-xen" with the uname comand.
> 

Yeah, you're right.... Actually I'm not sure we need the -xen part either, but
anyway...

> What version does a uname reports on your xen-kernel?
> 

I have 

2.6.12.6xeno003

with append-to-version=xeno003 ;)

> of course, that's the other posibiltiy. because we use a vanilla kernel and 
> not a debianized one this would be okay, wouldn't it?
> 
> Hmmm, but is it really better? not sure... I don't want to decice that :)
> 

Probably it's the same, as after applying the patch one can still use make-kpkg
to create debs...

Guido