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  • From: "David Michael Leo Brown Jr." <dmlb2000 AT excite.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] linux-new -> linux final push
  • Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:52:14 -0500 (EST)


I'm hoping to get linux-new to a state where it can be integrated into linux,
soon

Here's some useful info about the spell

Features:
1. dependancy checking using make
2. viewing patches that only apply to the base kernel you chose
so unless you go patch crazy the patches will most-likely apply
3. required post patching
this is mainly for security fixes and fixing overloaded kernels so
they actually compile
4. having multiple kernels with different patches in different states on the
same machine...
this is done by saving the persistant vars to the kernel tree
5. help dialogs explaining what the patches are and what contain
6. Options menu
1. pulling config files from different locations
2. arch selection
3. source tree clean options

Some things you might not expect:
1. updating
linux-new doesn't update with `sorcery upgrade`. This is because I
didn't want to stop the update process. The fact that there is no
guaranty
that a config file will apply to a newer kernel even if it's along the
same
update path is why I chose this approach.
in order to update linux-new you have to cast -r -c linux-new, and
select an old source tree so that either menuconfig defconfig oldconfig
whatever runs to create a valid config file.
how linux-new updates is this, selecting a LATEST_* anything will keep
the source tree up-to-date. if you select a latest patch the base kernel
that the patch depends on will override any latest selection of the base
kernel, this means if you select the latest 2.6 and ac patches then the
latest 2.6 kernel updates linux-new won't try to apply the old ac patch to
the new 2.6 kernel.

2. no manual kernel version selection
I'm going to fight this one, but I don't know if I'm going to win...
I really don't thing this is needed with the system that is in place, now.
that's my only argument against it.

Any feed back would be helpful, thanks

- David Brown
dmlb2000*

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