Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Download process for a "split kernel" (was: obsolete code must die) | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:56:17 +0200 |
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On Thursday 14 June 2001 04:00, David Luyer wrote: > > Would it make sense to create some sort of 'make config' script that > > determines what you want in your kernel and then downloads only those > > components? After all, with the constant release of new hardware, isn't a > > 50MB kernel release not too far away? 100MB? > > This might actually make sense - a kernel composed of multiple versioned > segments. A tool which works out dependencies of the options being > selected, downloads the required parts if the latest versions of those > parts are not already downloaded, and then builds the kernel...
This sounds a lot like apt-get, doesn't it?
> ... (or could even > build during the download, as soon as the build dependencies for each block > of the kernel are satisfied, if you want to be fancy...).
This is fancier alright:
1) walk 2) run
It's the kind of power tool that will be pretty easy to graft onto ESR's new cml2 code base. I'd love to see better apt-get hooks into the kernel config/download/build/install.
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