Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:44111 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757235Ab2BHC6h (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2012 21:58:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1328312594-31934-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@frijolero.org> <20120206160727.GA21048@tuxdriver.com> <20120207041958.GA32377@bombadil.infradead.org> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:58:17 -0800 Message-ID: (sfid-20120208_035853_016253_00ECEED3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: add compat kernel checker and downloader To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Andy Whitcroft Cc: "John W. Linville" , hauke@hauke-m.de, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez 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/ Disclaimer: (no error handling) 02:57 < pkgadd> and no support for different compression methods that gzip for now (Debian is using xz for >= 3.2 kernel packages)