Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | | Date | Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:55:40 -0800 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] compat: add compat kernel checker and downloader |
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On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@frijolero.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@frijolero.org> wrote: >> Come to think of it.. we could bastardize Ubuntu's PPA packages for >> mainline kernels, translate the deb packages into tar files and some >> sort of grub-update or whatever scrip to run in the end? That still >> seems like a lot of work. >> >> The current option allows us to use either distro kernels or whatever >> you have installed.. not sure how else to improve this. Didn't we have >> some sort of distro agnostic package crap? Maybe? > > Or -- Andy -- any chance we can get some of the deb contents unpacked > into a distro-agostic tarball of some sort that we can use ? I ask > given that you guys already host the sources and all that.
Just to not waste anyone's time it seems pkgadd from IRC has a distro-agnostic dpkg -x type of solution in the works, that could use these same debs.
http://paste.debian.net/155521/
Luis
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