Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 2.6.33.3-libre, 2.6.32.12-libre1

[Karl Goetz]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:02:04 -0300
Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> wrote:

> $SUBJECT have been available in source form for a while at
> http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/, sorry about the late announcement.
> 
> I also built binaries for gNewSense/mipsel, fixing two issues in the
> prior releases:
> 
> On Apr  5, 2010, Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I expected make-kpkg to also package and install the uncompressed
> > binary, so that System.map would make sense, but AFAICT it didn't.
> > Until I (or you :-) figure this out, I guess you'll have to resort
> > to the linux-build*.tar.bz2 tarball in case you need the
> > uncompressed vmlinux.
> 
> /boot/vmlinux-* is now the uncompressed kernel again; /boot/vmlinuz-*
> is the compressed kernel.  Adjust your boot.cfg or grub config to use
> the compressed version to boot up faster.  (This was broken in the
> now-gone 0lxo build, that carried only the uncompressed file again;
> 1lxo fixed it to behave as described)

Is the fix as simple as s/vmlinux/vmlinuz ?

> > I've just noticed that this build tarball grew some 50% after I
> > started building linux-source .debs in addition to the -source and
> > -patches tarballs.  I haven't tried to figure out why yet; if you
> > do, please let me know.
> 
> Fixed, the tarball contained copies of all the “install trees” with
> the contents of each of the .debs too, because they were created and
> left in the debian/ directory.  I excluded them in the new build
> script.

What process do you use to build the packages?
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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