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On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 05:12, Andrea Ferraris wrote: |
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> > Making a package of the kernel sources packages is just fine. It |
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> > doesn't build a distributable kernel but since the sources are already |
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> > downloaded and patched it makes it very easy and bandwidth friendly way |
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> > to distribute the kernel sources. |
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> It's not very on subject, but I read that is possible to build binary |
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> packages from the installed packages of a live system. Do you know if |
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> such opportunity exists also for the installed kernel? |
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Why wouldn't it? |
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aross-laptop root # quickpkg gentoo-dev-sources |
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* Building package for |
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gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r8... [ ok ] |
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* Packages now in /usr/portage/packages: |
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* gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r8: 36M |
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Of course, the package contains only the files which would be produced |
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by running emerge gentoo-dev-sources. |
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I suspect you are asking if a tbz2 kernel package built from a live |
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system includes the kernel config (/usr/src/linux/.confg), modules |
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(/lib/modules) and kernel itself. |
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Cheers |
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Andrew |
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